VERNON WARING : the proofreader
LYN LIFSHIN : Museum (“the other”)
WARD KELLEY : Long, Sleepless Watches of the Night
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read VERNON WARING. Recollected in Calm (12 poems)

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VERNON WARING
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his eyes follow words sentences paragraphs his mind seeks order balance as each printed mark is examined and a battalion of red pencil marks pursue the perfect page his deep blue godlike eyes peer beyond glass seeking sense syntax eyes that will not blink in this selfless solitary quest
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the other newborn infant buried without a cradle wrapped in cotton cloth and turkey feathers the robe tied on with 3 strips of yucca most of the robe feathers eaten by insects only the quills left a matting of split willow covers the wrapped baby who was buried beneath the floor of the mother's house with the hope that the spirit might be reborn, come back to her in the flesh again
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Poetry endangers the established order  of the soul - Plato



Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet, was one of the most popular and celebrated poets of his time. More than any other poet of the 19th century, Longfellow popularized poetry and indelibly marked American culture. Such images as Paul Revere's ride, the village blacksmith, Hiawatha, and the courtship of Miles Standish are immortalized in American literature, even though modern critics do not share the high opinion of Longfellow that was bestowed upon him by his contemporaries. His second wife, Fannie Appleton died tragically in a household accident when the light, summer dress she was wearing caught fire. Longfellow was himself burned so badly in his attempts to save her that scars left on his face made it necessary for him to grow a beard. The title of the above poem is taken from the first line of Longfellow's poem, “The Cross of Snow,” which memorialized Fanny.

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WARD KELLEY
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r fiery death wrenched my entire life . . . grief overwhelmed me, of course, of course, but underneath this severe pain was a severe doubt about the very core of life: where one second we are vibrant and in love, the next you scream, engulfed in fire then die horribly . . . how do we countenance such deadly caprice? Your eyes, at the end, will never leave my soul, your eyes shrieking through the flames, and I threw myself on you to attack the fire, my god, my god, your fingers clawed my skin like drowning women, only you drowned in fire, my love, my love, I hugged you tightly as I tried to absorb these flames into my own body and take this fire from you. Your coffin is lowered, my soul goes down, I use my bandaged hands to hide my tears, my face; I wish to hide from this world where one day my love is living flesh, but the next I watch her coffin take my soul away . . . go down, go down . . . and then, how do we countenance such caprice without a faith, without a poem, without hiding our faces?
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VERNON WARING : the proofreader
LYN LIFSHIN : Museum (“the other”)
WARD KELLEY : Long, Sleepless Watches of the Night

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