Best Poems Written by Scott Norman Rosenthal

My Sister

“My Sister”
       (for Hilde Weisert,
           and her daughter)

My sister’s skin is pale,
     the light is dim,

    perhaps I sleep
 and am dreaming.

She questions me,
   but I have no breath

    and I stumble
 as I reach out, towards her.

Her laughter as she leaves,
   is like bells on a black camel,

   in the wind, in the desert,
 at night.                          
                                       (Scott Norman Rosenthal, Fall ’77)

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