an interview with rb's first wife.
"suddenly everything belongs in california," (the california poem)
"what more, to carry the thing through?" (wcw, bookI, paterson)
my life
by water
hear
spring's
first frog
or board
out on the cold
ground
giving
muskrats
gnawing
doors
to wild green
arts and letters
rabbits
raided
my lettuce
one boat
two--
pointed toward
my shore
thru birdstart
wingdrip
weed-drift
of the soft
and serious--
water
(lorine niedecker)
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Whoa, Jen...I think about this poem all the time...it is the Wisconsin poem I wish I could write. They have a Lorine Niedecker special on PBS here that they re-air every month and it is just an actress reading Niedecker poems to scenes of birds (mostly egrets and cranes) landing/grooming on lakes that are laced with feathers and bugs.
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