Selective Service by Carolyn Forché : The Poetry Foundation
Selective Service by Carolyn Forché : The Poetry Foundation.
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Prayer for the Day
Though I know the rustling of the newspaper cannot be heard above the crumbling of a bombed out street, I …
Childhood Country*
It was another time, an age ago. Now I wonder where we are when we lie together late in this …
Inertia
Something was needed, a weight bearing substance or a strong back. Only children answered the call so they were …
Walking in Snow
The snow teaches me separateness, the ice to be hard. Though I was born in the desert, where the teachers …
Closing Time at the Museum
Today is a wish, or a halfhearted promise of escape from the contrived hopes that scaffold my vision. In the …
Searching For Goodbye
Originally posted on Poetry on the run:
We begin saying goodbye, become distracted by the search through time – attic, relics, the…
“A Blaze of Changes”
The Age of Water Primordial Water Virgin Birth “Salt” The first word in the place where it all begins. “Fire” …
Out of the Shadow
Shadows of mountains guard the thin ground of this life. The high dry canyons stretch out around seamless dunes …
Voyageur
Combed through trees the wind brings secret motion. The sun rising in the eye of a silver needle brings …
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