Remember the Brotherhood
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Remember the Brotherhood

Poems of Carter Lee Aldridge

Carter Lee Aldridge, Matthew Robb Brown

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Remember the Brotherhood

Poems of Carter Lee Aldridge

Carter Lee Aldridge, Matthew Robb Brown

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Matthew Robb Brown met Carter Lee Aldridge at Saginaw Valley State University in 1973. They continued a friendship in Midland, Michigan, built around God, the arts, music, the outdoors, and literature--especially poetry--until 1978, when Aldridge moved, with most of his family, to Georgia to mitigate what they thought would be serious consequences from the energy crisis of the 1970s. He and Brown had corresponded before, and now continued this correspondence, sharing artworks, news, thoughts, and poems, until Aldridge's passing in 1990. Remember the Brotherhood contains all of Aldridge's known extant poems, plus found poems that Brown has created from their letters (Aldridge's language could be and often was poetic in all his writings), plus commentary and a few relevant poems by Brown.

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Year
2022
ISBN
9781666797602
Part One

Carter’s Original Poems

Dawn

by Carter Lee Aldridge
Dawn,
Amber refraction along the heart,
Crystal autumn.
Frog on the road in spring
Like a leaf flapping over in the wind,
Seasons in a song, the old world,
Wells with butter cups and violets,
Mushrooms that paint themselves in
With deft strokes overnight—
For all things spare and simple, Lord,
Thanks be to thee.

Holy, Holy, Holy

by Carter Lee Aldridge
I stood in the wind-rhythmed field,
Alone and full of circles;
I blessed the Sun with an apple
In my hand; forever supple, forever,
Are the Kansas-curtains of wheat blowing
That soothe away all my madness
With an inexorable repetition . . .
Holy, Holy, Holy . . . .

The Humble Rain

by Carter Lee Aldridge
The humble rain
Falls in the lonely gutters . . .
How it conforms
To everything!
A leaf lies draped
Over a curb
In bland surrender.
So patient and submissive it is!
It condones every level.
Seeps and seeks the crevice,
Flows underground,
Emerges in the leafy wood,
Underguise of minerals,
Perpetrator of quiet rot,
The fumes of it coming forth
From the squelched wood.
[Copied into notebook in 1974]

[Humble Rain, alternative or original version]

by Carter
A leaf lies draped over a curb
In bland surrender.
Humble is the rain,
For it conforms to everything,
Seeks the gutter
At its own cost,
Surrenders to the drain,
Takes every hue,
And uses every crevice
As its home.

Humble Rain, another version

The humble rain falls
Into...

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