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Chimney Fire, Claudia Emerson, David Abrams, late wife, LSU Press, Southern Messenger series, southern poets, Sunday Sentence, women poets
My weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”
I learned to dread winter early,
before fall showed any real sign
of itself, the world still filled
with locusts, crickets, bees in the boneset,
ashen moths quickening the dusk.
SOURCE: Lines from Claudia Emerson‘s poem “Chimney Fire” in Pulitzer Prize-Winning Collection Late Wife (LSU Press, Southern Messenger Series)
Bonespark~ 