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August 15, 2007

Snapshot Poem 15 August 02007

Dave is losing patience with all this muddling about. I think he wants me to write. So here’s a quick and not especially good snapshot poem — but hey, I’m writing.

I’ll have a better one for you tomorrow.

Today 500 more
dead in Iraq. Young
soldiers come back

from there, and kill
themselves. An earth-
quake in Peru. A friend

is torn, by love, by
rage. The Black Cat
Fire hunts neighbors

from their homes.
Today I will rewire
a lamp. The man

at the hardware store
gave me parts
and instructions.

I brought home
strawberries,
blueberries,

heavy cream.

Snapshot Poems 2007

3 responses to “Snapshot Poem 15 August 02007”

Dave

August 16, 2007 at 5:45 am

Well, thanks, but hey, I understand the impulse very well. Muddling around with the design of the blog is a wonderful way to procrastinate from writing, and like you, I have more than one blog I can muck around with.
I too was moved by the story about the spike in suicides among soldiers yesterday.
Looking forward to your Poetry Thursday post!

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John B.

August 16, 2007 at 7:11 am

I liked this. It reminded me of W.C. Williams’ “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” but sort of turned inside-out: the “big” things matter, but so also do the instructions for rewiring the lamp and the berries and cream–to rework Frost’s description of poetry a bit, they are stays against the confusion of the times.
Sorry for blathering.

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SB

August 16, 2007 at 12:19 pm

Please, do feel free to blather in such a complimentary way any time you like.

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Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

Snapshot Poem 15 August 02007

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