A back-lit Queen Anne's Lace from Michigan last year.
And the road home. . .
SORROW SONG
--- From the Nahuatl
What have you set in motion, Giver of Life?
A dark time, close-by and coming?
A hard-luck day I won't survive?
Even after my time
there will be spring flowers.
Even after my time fragrant blossoms
will open---
field after field of marigolds
countless sun-bright petals . . .
Peter Everwine
Listening Long and Late,
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013, page 8.
Peter Everwine is a recent discovery, through one of his poems in a Robert Hass collection of newspaper columns. In this book, he mingles his own poems and prose poems with his versions of Hebrew and Nahuatl poems. It makes a very pleasant and surprising reading experience.
Look at the shape of this poem: Three three-line stanzas,
with lines of varying lengths. I want to try something similar.
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