Jessica Amanda Salmonson Poet Rhyme

Deep Memory

I once was a beautiful lass
	who captured every young man’s fancy
A nymph of the high Southern class
	who practiced a belle’s necromancy.

They worshipped my haughty fine grace
	they catered to temper and whim
A moment to gaze on my face
	sent rent hearts to pain, prayer, and hymn.

But now I lie cold in my grave
	festered and worm-eaten I be
With neither a knight nor a knave
	to worship or lie beside me.







"Deep Memory" originally appeared in Wilum Pugmire's anthology Visions of Kroy'don (1978) and the same editors ***** Madness (1980). It was collected in The Ghost Garden (Liverpool: Dark Dreams Press, 1988) and in  Sorceries & Sorrows (Early Poems) Polk City, Iowa: Chris Drumm Books, 1992, in a limited edition of 100 copies. It's included in my big forthcoming Hippocampus Press collection The Ghost Garden and Further Spirits.

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Mockingbird Stevenson March 25, 2018 at 7:59 AM Being from Scotland - I found myself reading this with quite the twang. It is a Brilliant write and a great share! Look forward to reading more of your work. H