Time Warp: "A hypothetical eccentricity of time moving back and forth
between eras."
Past and future, present in the poet's life.
Dinnertime as a child ("When we sat to eat I looked at Daddy first, sniffed the
air, alert").
A marriage's Mayday distress call ("Earthquake. Sudden
trembling, accumulated energy, quick release along the faults").
Questions of aging in Feuilleton ("Do I sit and wait until I'm rickety,
particular about my cereal, my Scotch?").
1 comment:
That's lovely. I grew up on 80 acres in northern Michigan and share that same lost language. I was in the midst but never truly knew the names and words of all the life around me.
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