Accidental Origami: New and Selected Works
This book features Morton's best work to date from her ten collections. While her poems range in style, topic and region, they capture each universal emotion, delving into our desire to know our place in this world; the reason for our very being. Her words are comfort and wonder and hope. She writes: This is a book of poems to swallow, to seep in your bloodstream/ and pound open the chamber doors/ of your own heart, reminding us of our huge capacity for love, guiding us through each tiny fold of synchronicity to discover the big picture—what it means to truly be alive.


Time
 
And where did the day go?
A late Sunday of mingling legs,
sermons of hawk and crow,
a choir of mockingbird.
 
Sitting outside,
legs still reaching for one another,
together;
just words.
 
The hours, dulcet and vaulting
like dog years.
 
These are the best unremarkable
days of our life,
when nothing happens
but the bloom of tiny wildflowers,

the kind you have to sink to your knees
to see.
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Accidental Origami: New and Selected Works
This book features Morton's best work to date from her ten collections. While her poems range in style, topic and region, they capture each universal emotion, delving into our desire to know our place in this world; the reason for our very being. Her words are comfort and wonder and hope. She writes: This is a book of poems to swallow, to seep in your bloodstream/ and pound open the chamber doors/ of your own heart, reminding us of our huge capacity for love, guiding us through each tiny fold of synchronicity to discover the big picture—what it means to truly be alive.


Time
 
And where did the day go?
A late Sunday of mingling legs,
sermons of hawk and crow,
a choir of mockingbird.
 
Sitting outside,
legs still reaching for one another,
together;
just words.
 
The hours, dulcet and vaulting
like dog years.
 
These are the best unremarkable
days of our life,
when nothing happens
but the bloom of tiny wildflowers,

the kind you have to sink to your knees
to see.
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Accidental Origami: New and Selected Works

Accidental Origami: New and Selected Works

by karla k. morton
Accidental Origami: New and Selected Works

Accidental Origami: New and Selected Works

by karla k. morton

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This book features Morton's best work to date from her ten collections. While her poems range in style, topic and region, they capture each universal emotion, delving into our desire to know our place in this world; the reason for our very being. Her words are comfort and wonder and hope. She writes: This is a book of poems to swallow, to seep in your bloodstream/ and pound open the chamber doors/ of your own heart, reminding us of our huge capacity for love, guiding us through each tiny fold of synchronicity to discover the big picture—what it means to truly be alive.


Time
 
And where did the day go?
A late Sunday of mingling legs,
sermons of hawk and crow,
a choir of mockingbird.
 
Sitting outside,
legs still reaching for one another,
together;
just words.
 
The hours, dulcet and vaulting
like dog years.
 
These are the best unremarkable
days of our life,
when nothing happens
but the bloom of tiny wildflowers,

the kind you have to sink to your knees
to see.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781680030877
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Publication date: 06/21/2016
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

KARLA K. MORTON, Texas State Poet Laureate in 2010, is a resident of Ft. Worth. She is a Betsy Colquitt Award Winner, twice an Indie National Book Award Winner, and North Texas Book Award Festival Winner. Morton is the recipient of the Writer-in-Residency E2C Grant and has ten books of poetry.

Table of Contents

New Works

Aperçu 1

On the Way to Santa Fe 2

To a Pregnant Daughter 3

One Summer of Eighteen 4

321 5

Symmetry 6

Statistics 8

Amateur Numerology 10

Bed Head 12

A Night in Tyler 13

Evolution 14

Hate Bus 16

One Song 17

A Man's World 18

Global Warming 19

Sympathy for Prometheus 20

Ambition 21

For you 22

Echo 23

Ashes 24

What We Do 25

Life and Death in the Cotton Fields 26

Who Gives This Person? 27

When Bonnie Found Clyde 28

Love Song of Bonnie Parker 29

Grey Area on Dove Road 30

The Warrior 31

Time 32

Music 33

Lift of Dreams 34

When God Speaks 35

Alphitomancv 36

Cowboys We Are 37

Ventifacts 38

Asclepius 39

Mending 40

The Importance of Coffee 42

TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series (TCU Press)

Alamo Coastline 45

For Love and Michelangelo 46

Bursting into Snowflakes 47

Electronic Quills 48

Graveside in Sanger 49

Bad Theology 50

Indian Blood 51

Where Moonlight Cannot Tread 52

Superman's Birthday 54

Shattering the Ordinary 55

When Texas No Longer Fits in the Glove Box 56

The Closer 58

Hanging On 60

The Monarch and Her Mistress 61

Living Close to DFW Airport, September 12, 2001 62

Woman in the Pipe Shop 63

Picking Up the Accent 64

Redefining Beauty (Dos Gatos Press)

Honeysuckle 69

Spock Thinks I'm Sexy 70

Second Spring 71

Cowboyed Up 72

Redefining Beauty 73

Wee Cowrin' Timorous Beastie (a 17th-Century Scottish Epic CD and Book by Lagniappe Publishing)

Wee Cowrin' Timorous Beastie 77

Becoming Superman (Zone Press)

Becoming Superman 91

Don't Be Nervous 92

Teenage, Burning 93

Texas Longhorns 94

Ask the Crow 95

Names We've Never Known (Texas Review Press)

Charmer 99

Atheists 100

What Goes Unseen 101

Snakes 102

Summer at Texoma 103

Directionally Impaired 104

Texas Heirlooms 105

What Really Makes the Stars Shine 106

Standing by the Bok Choy, Central Market, Plano Texas 107

A Rare Man 108

Austin Embrace 109

Superconductivity 110

Ultimate Sacrifice 111

An Ordinary Moment of Extraordinary Beauty on Northside Drive 112

Alvarado Coy 113

Crybaby 114

In Your Prime 115

The Old That's Worth Hanging On To 116

Horseshoes 118

Anniversary 119

Stirring Goldfish (Finishing Line Press)

Circles 123

Wishes 124

River and Snake 125

Redefining Strength 126

Deep Sleep 127

Silence 128

Royal Purple 129

Lifting Up 130

Faith 131

Rush 132

Ready 133

Hope 134

Joy 135

Peace 136

Wanting 137

Returning 138

Hometown, Texas: Young Poets & Artists Celebrate Their Roots (TCU Press)

Leaving Brenham 141

Traveling with Dog 142

Making Peace with Scorpions 143

Bowie Snow Globes 144

Danny Keough 145

Calling the Cattle 146

Passion, Art, Community: Denton, Texas, in Word and Image (The City of Denton, Texas)

Fun 151

The Last Raid, 1874 152

Capital Punishment 153

Hickory Creek 154

New Icaria 156

An Old Photo of Young Men 158

May Comes to Denton County 159

Small Town Bees: a poet's thank you to Denton, Texas 160

8 Voices: Contemporary Poetry of the American Southwest (Baskerville Publishers)

Palindrome 165

The E Ticket 166

Tree Blossoms 167

Persephone, the Bear 168

Motel 170

Sign Language 171

One Night in Florida 172

Constant State of Leaping (The Texas Review Press)

Weeding 175

A Perfect Night at the Observatory 176

What Real Men Do 177

Adytum 178

You Don't Know Hot 179

Winter 180

Letter to the Grim Reaper 181

The Making of a Hero 182

Passing the Gauntlet 183

Walking Out 184

Midnight on the Roof at Villa Velleron 185

Breathless 186

Good Saturday 187

Contemplating the Nut 188

Whisper in the Winter 189

Letter to an Old Love 190

The Eternal Life of Poets 191

Tiny Courtships 192

Tequila Poetry Form (2-2-4-3) 193

Sin 194

Seasons 195

God Bless America 196

God in the Bathtub 197

Twelve Stitches 198

Reference Material 199

Shameless Love Poem 200

My Moment of America 201

Veronica 202

Her Night Eyes 204

A Little Flower 205

Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate (Texas Review Press)

Jell-O Healing 209

Paris as I See It 210

Damn Dishes 211

What Clings to the Back of the Spoon 212

Music Box Lunch 213

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