Seemingly intimate with the ways of gardeners, Earle Birney in a poem about visiting for the first time Al Purdy’s Ameliasburg (collected in Rag and Boneshop) supplies a horticultural image in touch with the growing process:
horsecrap-fattened peonies
And Mark Doty brought a singular poppy gathered from School of the Arts and pressed between the pages of Fire to Fire.
| Pink fist. | Iron frill. |
| Essential frippery. | Fierce embroidery. |
| Core decor. | Severe extravagance. |
| Lip of otherness. | Evidence. |
And a spray from Amy Lowell: “The evening primrose, comrade of the stars.”
And so for day 1024
02.10.2009