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Planting Bulbs in a Time of War, and Other Poems

Patricia Roth Schwartz

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Description:From the book:October 2001A morning for choices: bed,the muzzy drone of half-sleep,the sinking heart-or instead, thick socks,rubber clogs, a sharp trowel in gloved hands,the garb of earth's midwife.Out under the struggling sun, the lifting breeze,you bend to work, a swarm of lady-bugsclings to the porch door; beyondthe dying tomatoes, sumac warmsthe field of fading goldenrod.Hunkered on rain-damp ground,deep into each hole you've dugyou press one bulb, tear-shaped;like the ancient Egyptiansleaving the dead food for the journey,you scatter bone ground fine as ash.Last night with fierce surpriseyou found yourself calling downfrom the pale stars your parents,as if this time they'd enter their livescapable of comforting, but reallywhat you ached for was just a chanceto ask, before dark fell, for onelast story, the one you never thoughtyou'd need to hear:What was it likewhen a moment arrived--like a fingertipheld to a pulse--when a hawk's shadowdropped over the day? Afterward then,still childless, apart, did each of them dareto conjure a future that one day arrived?--a station platform, a baby whose picturethey'd pose atop a globe of the world,then print up for cards at Christmas.And here you still are this morning, still ridingthat spinning world, the sun your incantation,after so many burials ready to catch,when it comes--as it must--the howlingspring, writing the story yourself, notthe final chapter but the next, deep underyour broken fingernailsashes and dirt.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Planting Bulbs in a Time of War, and Other Poems. To get started finding Planting Bulbs in a Time of War, and Other Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 72

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: FootHills Publishing

Release: 2005

ISBN: 0941053628

Description: From the book:October 2001A morning for choices: bed,the muzzy drone of half-sleep,the sinking heart-or instead, thick socks,rubber clogs, a sharp trowel in gloved hands,the garb of earth's midwife.Out under the struggling sun, the lifting breeze,you bend to work, a swarm of lady-bugsclings to the porch door; beyondthe dying tomatoes, sumac warmsthe field of fading goldenrod.Hunkered on rain-damp ground,deep into each hole you've dugyou press one bulb, tear-shaped;like the ancient Egyptiansleaving the dead food for the journey,you scatter bone ground fine as ash.Last night with fierce surpriseyou found yourself calling downfrom the pale stars your parents,as if this time they'd enter their livescapable of comforting, but reallywhat you ached for was just a chanceto ask, before dark fell, for onelast story, the one you never thoughtyou'd need to hear:What was it likewhen a moment arrived--like a fingertipheld to a pulse--when a hawk's shadowdropped over the day? Afterward then,still childless, apart, did each of them dareto conjure a future that one day arrived?--a station platform, a baby whose picturethey'd pose atop a globe of the world,then print up for cards at Christmas.And here you still are this morning, still ridingthat spinning world, the sun your incantation,after so many burials ready to catch,when it comes--as it must--the howlingspring, writing the story yourself, notthe final chapter but the next, deep underyour broken fingernailsashes and dirt.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Planting Bulbs in a Time of War, and Other Poems. To get started finding Planting Bulbs in a Time of War, and Other Poems, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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