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- ISBN-10:
- 1882295374
- ISBN-13:
- 9781882295371
- Pub. Date:
- 04/01/2003
- Publisher:
- Alice James Books
- ISBN-10:
- 1882295374
- ISBN-13:
- 9781882295371
- Pub. Date:
- 04/01/2003
- Publisher:
- Alice James Books
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Overview
"This is poetry of a rare fine delicacy. Its very modesty testifies to a great ambition—to overcome by the quietest of means."—Donald Justice
In Tennessee I Found a Firefly
Flashing in the grass; the mouth of a spider clung
to the dark of it: the legs of the spider
held the tucked wings close,
held the abdomen still in the midst of calling
with thrusts of phosphorescent light—
When I am tired of being human, I try to remember
the two stuck together like burrs. I try to place them
central in my mind where everything else must
surround them, must see the burr and the barb of them.
There is courtship, and there is hunger. I suppose
there are grips from which even angels cannot fly.
Even imagined ones. Luciferin, luciferase.
When I am tired of only touching,
I have my mouth to try to tell you
what, in your arms, is not erased
"This is poetry of a rare fine delicacy. Its very modesty testifies to a great ambition—to overcome by the quietest of means."—Donald Justice
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781882295371 |
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Publisher: | Alice James Books |
Publication date: | 04/01/2003 |
Pages: | 80 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d) |
Table of Contents
Contents
Mutatis Mutandis.......................................................1
What If I Could Look at You............................................2
Naked and Unashamed Are Two Different Moments..........................4
Swamp..................................................................5
What the World Is For..................................................6
Raiment................................................................8
Idealized Head.........................................................9
Twelfth Night from the Willow Cabin....................................10
First Confession.......................................................12
His Animals............................................................13
Long After the Donkey and Desert.......................................14
When I Was a Spoon in My Mother's Kitchen..............................16
Crylight...............................................................18
Via Negativa...........................................................19
Monologue to be Spoken by an Archangel.................................20
Again, the Body as Temple..............................................21
Script Says Cry........................................................23
Against Bitterness.....................................................24
In the Glare of the Garden.............................................26
Response to Sunlight...................................................27
First Mardi Gras.......................................................28
The Way One Picks Up a Shell on the Beach..............................30
The Mouths of Carp.....................................................31
Approaching Elegy......................................................32
Heaven in Miniature....................................................34
Withdrawal.............................................................36
Apology................................................................38
On Gravity.............................................................39
Train Station, Reno: Early December....................................40
"... What a Lovely Way You Have of Putting Things".....................42
Our Lady of the Milk...................................................43
The Technique of the Lifelike..........................................44
The Waiting............................................................45
Wafian as in Waven as in Wif...........................................47
Self-Portrait with a Bee in My Mouth...................................49
Two Figures Lying on a Bed with Attendants.............................51
In Tennessee I Found a Firefly.........................................54
NOTES..................................................................57