Constant State of Leaping

ISBN-13: 9781680030129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 80 str.

Karla K. Morton

Opis

This collection, Morton s tenth, is a bold book of poetry delving into risks. It s the moving forward; the constant discovery of new things. Using a combination of quotes, mythological images, and exquisite metaphors from nature, Morton delivers poems that describe the absolute urgency of giving one s heart over to life, the burning drive to have faith in the world, the insistence that everything, in its own way, is holy. This book is unfettered joy.
Tending Fires
I wanted to write a sonnet last night,
because that s what lovers do, but the fire
needed tending, and all I could think of
were your shoulders, and that s not romantic,
so I put on another log, and thought
about that hot summer day underneath
that oak, when our shoulders brushed, and I blushed
at the nearness of you, and how we made
love that night . . . still . . . that s not what I wanted
to write . . . But it s you; you, my love. You are
my night and my morning, and the hot coals
beneath these logs . . . hear them hiss and whisper
like cicadascicadas of the trees,
and the summer, and of all things that burn."