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rachelm31f6b's review
4.0
I really enjoyed this book. It reminds me of my own memories; visiting my grandparents. Driving to visit them, walking about on the farm, watching my grandparents work their land.
"Things, the biologist reminds us,
are becoming something else. Before my eyes
transformation of sugar into energy-tree, shrub, vine,
sunlight, and oxygen-this feeder hanging from a maple
imitating the deep throat of a flower"('Early September', 5)
"Oh, my child, how you dreamed!
And now this cackling confusion of starlings overhead,
the sun at a sharper angle, rousing the earth"('Late Winter: Survival', 18).
"And yet:
grandmother, father, me, son, granddaughter-stories I'm writing
in blood, passing down, layer into layer, better than skin-deep"('Palimpsest' 27).
Poems enjoyed for review later:
'Bones, ETC.'
'Sumac Scattering Like Bones'
'Toward Moonset'
'Saving Room'
"Things, the biologist reminds us,
are becoming something else. Before my eyes
transformation of sugar into energy-tree, shrub, vine,
sunlight, and oxygen-this feeder hanging from a maple
imitating the deep throat of a flower"('Early September', 5)
"Oh, my child, how you dreamed!
And now this cackling confusion of starlings overhead,
the sun at a sharper angle, rousing the earth"('Late Winter: Survival', 18).
"And yet:
grandmother, father, me, son, granddaughter-stories I'm writing
in blood, passing down, layer into layer, better than skin-deep"('Palimpsest' 27).
Poems enjoyed for review later:
'Bones, ETC.'
'Sumac Scattering Like Bones'
'Toward Moonset'
'Saving Room'
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