The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Fri 4/3/2009)

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Fri Apr-03-09 06:35 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Fri 4/3/2009)

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When you come back to me
it will be crow time
and flycatcher time,
with rising spirals of gnats
between the apple trees.
Every weed will be quadrupled,
coarse, welcoming
and spine-tipped.
The crows, their black flapping
bodies, their long calling
toward the mountain;
relatives, like mine,
ambivalent, eye-hooded;
hooting and tearing.
And you will take me in
to your fractal meaningless
babble; the quick of my mouth,
the madness of my tongue.

Ruth Stone

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Ruth Stone was born on June 8, 1915, in Roanoke, Virginia. Her recent books of poetry include In the Next Galaxy (Copper Canyon 2002), Ordinary Words (Paris Press, 1999), Simplicity (Paris Press, 1997), Who is the Widow's Muse (1991), Second Hand Coat (1987), Cheap (1975), Topography (1971), and In an Iridescent Time (1959). She has published poems in numerous anthologies and literary journals. Stone is the recipient of the 2002 Wallace Stevens Award. Among her other awards are two Guggenheim Fellowships, The Bess Hokin Award from Poetry magazine, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Vermont Cerf Award for lifetime achievement in the arts, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. For the last fifteen years Stone has been a professor at Binghamton University. She has been a resident of Vermont since 1957.

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Fri Apr-03-09 07:10 AM
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1. morning!

:thumbsup:

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Fri Apr-03-09 12:08 PM
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7. Morning...

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Fri Apr-03-09 07:13 AM
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2. ...

I love the black flapping crows. :)

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Fri Apr-03-09 12:09 PM
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8. ...

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Fri Apr-03-09 07:14 AM
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3. Terrific poem

fascinating author. :)

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Fri Apr-03-09 12:09 PM
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9. ...

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Fri Apr-03-09 09:19 AM
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4. born on June 8, 1915

She will be 94. Rock on! :donut: :hi:

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Fri Apr-03-09 12:08 PM
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6. And she still dyes her hair red!

and she's still writing...

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Fri Apr-03-09 11:19 AM
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5. My dear Retro!

YES.

What a great love poem!

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Fri Apr-03-09 12:09 PM
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10. ...

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