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2sDay Poems, Jill Osier, Molly Peacock, poets reading, Should Our Undoing Come Down Upon Us White, The Second Blush, women poets
There is the slightest chill in the air today, and already I am thinking of cranberries, sweaters and fire-side rugs. Here are two colder-weather poems by Molly Peacock & Jill Osier with bonus audio files.
THE FLAW
The best thing about a hand-made pattern
is the flaw.
Sooner or later in a hand-loomed rug,
among the squares and flattened triangles,
a little red nub might soar above a blue field,
or a purple cross might sneak in between
the neat ochre teeth of the border.
The flaw we live by, the wrong color floss,
now wreathes among the uniform strands…
FULL TEXT HERE (audio file at top-center of that page)
from The Second Blush (W.W.Norton,2008)
IO
by Jill Osier
Today I find lowbush cranberries edging the yard. Full ripe,
they lie secret as gems among broken twigs and leaves blown down.
I pick two generous handfuls. There may be more. You told me
the story of Jupiter once. How when Voyager passed by one of its moons,
it recorded something like ten volcanic eruptions. Scientists reasoned
that if at random they found ten, the place must be breaking all the time.
They looked closer, and they were right. It is later and I’m home and I stand….
FULL TEXT HERE
audio here
latest collection: Should Our Undoing Come Down Upon Us White
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