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Poppy Seeds
Allison Davis
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Poppy Seeds
Allison Davis
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Spanning oceans and continents, language and the imagination, the unfathomable distances between people and their desires, Allison Davis's Poppy Seeds creates an "immaculate atlas." Here language is "brokenā¦ against the margin of the sea, " and a word is a thing that can be "wash[ed] away." Here the body is both a lesson and a place with an edge you can drive to. The book "longs[s] for as long as Ohio rivers." Tangled between worlds and languages both old and new, our deepest emotions search for their roots, hoping to find a place to call home.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Poppy Seeds
To Devorah Mazur
Occupation
Distances
Language Lesson
Timing
On a Theme by Moyshe Kulbak
Gust Martin
The Merchant Marineās Wife
Summer Contours
Still
Matriarch to Patriarch
Spare Regrets
Beautiful, the dead end
Symbiotic Economics
Thinking About It from Here
Katedros aikÅ”tÄ/Cathedral Square
Note
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to the editors of Prick of the Spindle where āSummer Contoursā first appeared. I am grateful for The George and Emily Severinghaus Beck Fund Scholarship for Study at Vilnius Yiddish Institute during which many of these poems were written.
For their encouragement and guidance, Iād like to thank Angela Pitinii, Kathy Fagan, Henri Cole, Andrew Hudgins, Joanie Mackowski, Tom LeClair, David Miller, Neil Jacobs, Jack Hay, and Vivian Axiotis McGarrity. My gratitude to my family extends back many generations.
POPPY SEEDS
Dominikonų GatvÄ
Mother, his teeth were full of poppy seeds,
his teeth exact as the cobblestones.
The cobblestones covered in pigeons,
Mother, and the white paper bag from the bakery
rattles with leftover poppy seeds
with noise so violet, so sharp
that all of my vowels become poppy seeds,
Mother, his name was all vowels like poppy seeds
dotted over the yellow sun.
I crossed an ocean. It crossed me.
His eyes I exchanged for poppy seeds,
Mother, fo...