Sing to me, o southern hill where my mother lies, she near the river where other children only her eyes could spy, her fingers feel. Willow trees, arcing oaks, pillows made of amethyst and amaryllis, beechnut spread, linen spread by old Mill Creek, cattle grazing, hazy August afternoons, all alone was she except in fantasy. No love from Mother, her Father farther away than Ozymandias. Tears she used in her high tea; no spoon had she. She wept beneath a yellow sun, a sister to the gentle sea, the golden waves of wheat.
Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and a human-rights advocate for his entire life.