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About this book
The William Carlos Williams Award–winning poet shares a new collection of "musically brilliant, psychologically intricate" meditations on time (Kevin Prufer).
This hauntingly spare and subtle poetry collection consists of six sequences: during one month each year, for six years, Martha Collins wrote a short poem each day. With perfectly distilled lines, she captures the aching, liminal beauty of one day becoming another—the slow burn of time passing, the ambiguity of an "old / new leaf" turning over, even as she collages a wide range of material that includes often disturbing news of the world.
Writing in the tradition of poetic meditation, Collins shows us the full degree of her mastery—a mature voice, poems with tremendous scope, and lines exceptionally controlled. Here is the work of a seasoned poet at the height of her career.
This hauntingly spare and subtle poetry collection consists of six sequences: during one month each year, for six years, Martha Collins wrote a short poem each day. With perfectly distilled lines, she captures the aching, liminal beauty of one day becoming another—the slow burn of time passing, the ambiguity of an "old / new leaf" turning over, even as she collages a wide range of material that includes often disturbing news of the world.
Writing in the tradition of poetic meditation, Collins shows us the full degree of her mastery—a mature voice, poems with tremendous scope, and lines exceptionally controlled. Here is the work of a seasoned poet at the height of her career.
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MOVING STILL
July 2007
1
Sun day summer day Sun-
day news & views more civilians
killed than soldiers Afghans around
their shoulders handsome dogs in these
our own United States so named on this
summer day our dogs bark but maybe some
day the sun the day the Lord hath made
2
Made in the day-old USA,
by the Laws of Nature and Nature’s
God
and then this morning the yolk
of the sun: full, I said, as if I spoke
of the moon,
as if my country, our
country, wrote all, wrote equal—
Life, Liberty and the pursuit
3
pursuit of happiness guaranteed
by much of the paper, ads for more
designer purses perfume shoes
for some of the people, those
who can, for us this summer
ocean bed view love our
summer’s not for all
4
all are created equal endowed by Creator
while they were finishing midday prayers
bombs bursting in fireworks bombs
charred bodies had no faces
bright stars the rockets red
could not protect
our Lives our sacred Honor
5
Honor the sun that sheds the light
that falls upon us, honor the clouds
that gather and make the rain
that falls upon us, honor the earth
that holds and keeps us, honor
That Which made us, gave us
honor, the sun, the hurting earth.
6
Earth: mantled mother big
blue marble pale blue dot not
blue until we got out there we
thought talked green forgot
the water now we let green
go cut it burn it turn it into
stuff, junk, shall her bones live?
7
Live from our own
dawn air, featuring song
sparrow, cardinal, mourning
dove, alive and well
in our bed my love, his slow
sleeping breathing, low continuo
entered into this summer score
8
Score one for sea, one for sky, blue
meets blue, line, tie,
one for sand,
now exposed, turning tide,
leaving sand,
birds for all, least
terns hover, dart, piping
plovers scurry,
can we all agree
with these on earth sea sky?
9
Sky items: Yesterday I disturbed
the nesting terns, they charged
like planes,
in May the osprey flew
a...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- OVER TIME
- COMING THROUGH
- UNDER GREEN
- MOVING STILL
- AFTER WORK
- GRAYED IN
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author