by
Adrie Kusserow
Foreword by Karen Swenson
New Poets of America
Series
Drawing from her work in comparative religion and cultural anthropology,
Adrie Kusserow offers a collection of portraits of Westerners
in the East and Easterners in the West struggling to relearn and
relive their ideas of culture, religion and God. These poems expose
the human craving for the nourishment of a spiritual life. Celebrated
poet Karen Swenson has written the Foreword.
What I Want
for Robert
More
than any other time
I love
you most
when
you are in the garden,
your
body held in bowls of sun,
the
slim throats of the iris
stretching
toward you,
the
heads of peonies bumping into you.
They
want you.
We
all want to be touched by you.
From
the window I watch
your
hands skate the soil,
smooth
the bumps.
Red,
yellow, and blue skins reach.
Listen:
You are opening the earth,
the
colors popping like parachutes.
My
whole body leans from its hungry axis.
I wait
my turn.
©BOA
Editions, Ltd 2002
Available editions:
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Paperback
ISBN: 1-929918-23-2
Price: $15.00
Publishing Date: December 2002
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