What the Body Knows

Cyra S. Dumitru

ISBN 1-877603-76-7

94 pages, The Pecan Grove Press, 1999

Praise for What the Body Knows:

“Thick with a life all their own,” these poems are as “well-schooled in touch” as the title of Cyra S. Dumitru’s first collection suggests. What the Body Knows speaks from “the long lift” of painful memory, yet over and over it brings “hope to warn its wet wings by your side.” – Wendy Barker

From What the Body Knows:

Swimming the Frio (Near the Headwaters)

Dive into jade
wave upon pure wave
churning up from below
a quiet you can trust

long as you understand
that the dark means depth
means rowing your body
toward shore

Let eyes close
see with your body
even while turning for air
Feel the river swim you

release the deep gentle
be within
perfect silken silence
blessed rhythm of limbs

lasting oneness with green