by
Rick Lyon
New Poets of America
Series
"A sad soul, sometimes, but a good soul, modest and generous,
has written this book, and sensitively inhabits it. ...his singing
in subtle and ample, his vision sharp and large, his poems gratifying
and unique." ˜C.K.
Summer
A man
asleep among the flowers
is
what I remember best.
They'd
taken him out to a cot in the yard,
bordered
with marigolds and day lilies,
the
temporary sickbed in the sunshine and fresh air,
where
he'd seem far from the drone of lawn mowers,
the
circling retriever's restlessness,
the
world all around his awkward face-down sprawl.
She'd
seemed faraway, too,
watching
him, watching her brother,
another
afternoon on the darkened porch
as
he slept in a chair.
And
that's what it was—
the
steady, undistracted, undeceived gaze—
the
equal, the answering thing,
his
dying, her love.
©BOA
Editions, Ltd 1994
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ISBN: 1-880238-09-8
Price: $12.50
Publishing Date: January 1994
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