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“Into My Own,” the collection’s opening poem, reveals the poet’s strange wish to “steal away” into “those dark trees, / So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze.” Without fear, he welcomes uncertainty, ventures into it willingly, knowing it is the only way to live. In “Ghost House,” the poet enters a realm of shades and spirits, an underworld of memory where “a lonely house” has left “no trace but the cellar walls.” As he moves through this twilight landscape, encountering the “mute folk…Who share the unlit place” with him, the poet meditates on life and death, their proximity and distance, and his own sense of self within both. “Mowing” envisions the poet’s work through the prism of rural labor. “There was never a sound beside the wood but one / And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. / What was it it whispered?” The speaker does not know, but continues his task, hypnotized by its rhythm and music.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781605123431 |
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Publisher: | Akasha Classics |
Publication date: | 01/12/2009 |
Pages: | 108 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.38(d) |
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Table of Contents
Part I
Into My Own 9
Ghost House 10
My November Guest 12
Love and a Question 13
A Late Walk 15
Stars 16
Storm Fear 17
Wind and Window Flower 18
To the Thawing Wind 20
A Prayer in Spring 21
Flower-Gathering 22
Rose Pogonias 23
Asking for Roses 24
Waiting—afield at Dusk 26
In a Vale 27
A Dream Pang 28
In Neglect 29
The Vantage Point 30
Mowing 31
Going for Water 32
Part II
Revelation 35
The Trial by Existence 36
In Equal Sacrifice 39
The Tuft of Flowers 41
Spoils of the Dead 43
Pan with Us 45
The Demiurge’s Laugh 47
Part III
Now Close the Windows 51
A Line-Storm Song 52
October 54
My Butterfly 55
Reluctance 57