Searching there
you may wonder
which way
the dead face.
There is no telling
them to turn.
Is the sun over
the right or left
shoulder as it tries
to warm those so
cold so long?
And youth and
memory
from which side
of morning
will they rise?
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Henry Rappaport has four books of poetry published, including Dream Surgeon and A Book of Days, from Intermedia Press, and more than twenty recent poems in literary journals such as Poet Lore, and The Cincinnati Review. This summer he was at Bread Loaf Writers Conference working with James Longenbach, and previously has attended the Sewanee Writers Conference and Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Originally from the Catskill Mountains of New York, he has an M.A. from the University of Washington, and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.