Voices and Vessels:
A Confluence of Ideas and Passion
in Fine Press Books and Broadsides
A PRAYER BY THE TIGRIS
by Kim Stafford.
Printed on Mulberry paper from Japan, the folio is sewn into Canson Mi-Tientes paper wrappers. Presented in an edition of 220 numbered and signed copies. 7.625 x 5 inches closed and 7.625 x 13.5 inches opened. Price: $20
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A PRAYER BY THE TIGRIS
19 March 2003
Kim Stafford
Let me be light from the morning star,
the glimmer between worlds.
I am what you cannot see—at midnight
or noon. I am the child in war
putting my candle in a paper boat
at the call to prayer. My mother says
when I die I will be a secret.
Little boat, you are my sister
I put light in. go find me
a place to be. Allah is great,
you are small. Go tell them
your brother is here. My mother,
my father, we—we are a secret,
we are a boat, we are a light.
We are the star that sees you.
What we lost will be you,
my mother says.