The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 5/11/2008)

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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 5/11/2008)

Cherries

There’s mercy in the decades as they pass,
reducing years of ache to a single afternoon
beneath a cherry tree in a terraced garden:
the cherries seem to ripen while we gaze,
darkening as sunlight starts to fade.
You’re talking; I’m waiting for you to realize
what you won’t admit for another decade:
love is not a word I wouldn’t use
you’ll say once I’ve had daughters, you, a son.
Now there’s another decade gone
and I have yet to hear of love
without some qualifier, some double negative.
Perhaps I’ve stifled it? It’s getting late;
no sign of ripeness, just failing light.

Jacqueline Osherow

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Jacqueline Osherow is the author of five books of poetry. Osherow has been awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and a number of prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Twentieth Century American Poetry, The Wadsworth Anthology of Poety and The Norton Anthology of Jewish-American Poetry, Best American Poetry (1995 and 1998), The New Breadloaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, The New Yorker, Paris Review and many others. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah.

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Sun May-11-08 08:53 AM
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1. ...

It’s getting late;
no sign of ripeness, just failing light.

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Sun May-11-08 12:25 PM
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7. ...

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Sun May-11-08 08:58 AM
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2. so sad...

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Sun May-11-08 04:51 PM
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8. Yes.

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Sun May-11-08 10:28 AM
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3. She's a great writer. And I swear I've met her somewhere. nt

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Sun May-11-08 11:23 AM
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5. was not familiar with her...

She is good...

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Sun May-11-08 11:22 AM
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4. My dear Retro...

Aging without loving...

This is sad...

And lovely...

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Sun May-11-08 11:24 AM
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6. yes...

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Sun May-11-08 09:25 PM
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9. kick

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Sun May-11-08 10:14 PM
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10. Hey...

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