STONE OLIVES

A POEM IN MEMORY OF MELINA HUDSON

and those who died with her in the bombing of Pan Am 103

over Lockerbie, Scottland

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by Judith E. Johnson

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the medieval dance of death

First movement:

Tulip-Flowered Wind

The Sound of Olive Trees

La Muerte

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Second movement:

Tulip-Fluttered Wind

The Stand of Apple Trees

Shalom

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Third movement:

Tulip-Sequined Wind

The Sands of the Pyramids

Heart

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Fourth movement:

Tulip-Grinning Wind

The Bend Beyond the Asteroids

Little Dead Ones

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copyright 1993 Judith E. Johnson

first published 1993 in a limited edition by Poetry Ex/Press, Albany, NY

currently in print in Legacies1995, Harcourt Brace, an anthology edited by

Carley Rees Bogarad and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt

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