SAINT JULIAN PRESS
Jane Creighton ~ Poet
Standing in Gallery 8
—after Twombly's Say Goodbye, Catullus,
to the Shores of Asia Minor
Menil Collection
When Orpheus turned to look at her
it was the end of something and the beginning
of something else, a budding protest
turned mortal longing turned a failing so earnest so
back to back to back that it blossomed all
inside itself, suffocated, and collapsed.
A fragrant boil in the great white air.
a memory, a fragment of a human
being. Oh, we push and push
against everything we have to lose
and still, we love. Birdlike. Swift.
We dive the pitiless horizon
surprised, always, by the bright
return of progress toward our ends
and the tidy respite of tasks, our stories
like beds, made. Unmade. As when
Orpheus turned, the keening puzzle,
the paling air, and water swept
the desolate earth.
—after Twombly's Say Goodbye, Catullus,
to the Shores of Asia Minor
Menil Collection
When Orpheus turned to look at her
it was the end of something and the beginning
of something else, a budding protest
turned mortal longing turned a failing so earnest so
back to back to back that it blossomed all
inside itself, suffocated, and collapsed.
A fragrant boil in the great white air.
a memory, a fragment of a human
being. Oh, we push and push
against everything we have to lose
and still, we love. Birdlike. Swift.
We dive the pitiless horizon
surprised, always, by the bright
return of progress toward our ends
and the tidy respite of tasks, our stories
like beds, made. Unmade. As when
Orpheus turned, the keening puzzle,
the paling air, and water swept
the desolate earth.
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Publication Date: September 1, 2021
Paperback: $18.00 ISBN-13: 978-1-955194-00-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2021936728 Number of pages: 120 Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc. To receive an advance book copy for a book review by email, please contact: Ron Starbuck or Jane Creighton. |
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