Poetry
Lament and Song
Jeffery Beam
For Tunney Cobb, January 19, 1953 - December 14, 1993
Lament
For every gray stone
Alive with moss and left
Unturned by your kind feet
Birds of heaven sing
Heaven knows somebody
Hears those birds
Heaven's hounds guard your ashes now
Shine their green lights
On a humbled earth
Song
Past white past water
Past the last word from your tongue
Past the altered rhythm of your speaking
We come
Before darkness before fire
Before the simple angel of the young
Before the fields
We come
Past the simple angel of the young
Past the field of lilies
Past the early and the deep
Before white before water
Before the last word from your tongue
To us love came and you our love
Did come