Frost Lights A Thin Flame

by Owens, James

• ISBN13: 9780932412553
• ISBN10: 0932412556
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

Poetry. "Near the end, she spoke as if waking from a dream/ to common light,/ her fingers on the bedclothes/ untying words to loose like petals of fog.// Whenever her husband's bees/ swarmed from their hives, the noise/ like a saw inside her pulse, she had to run/ after them and bang a kettle with a big spoon,/ a sound the escaping swarm would take for thunder/ and settle on a branch to be caught and housed.// She cried then, she said--just sat and wept,/ every time she saw the bees betrayed--/ and couldn't explain,/ ringed by shocked children, the voice/ of the angry swarm/ that followed her across decades:/ bees, their penned fury."--from the text. James Owens, a native of Virginia, worked for some years in journalism before earning an MFA from the University of Alabama. He now lives in La Porte, Indiana, with his wife and three children, where he works in educational assessment and spends as much time as possible wandering the dunes along the southern shore of Lake Michigan. This is his second book of poems.

Table of Contents

Elegy for Speech	p. 3
Encounter	p. 4
Poison	p. 5
Your Name in Early Autumn	p. 6
Bats	p. 8
Wilderness Survival Guide	p. 9
Prayer for Going to Paradise with the Donkeys	p. 10
Distance	p. 11
Edge	p. 12
Waking in the Afternoon	p. 13
Jogger	p. 14
Inbox: Gras Nichons!	p. 15
Brother	p. 16
Rural Landscape from the Seventies	p. 17
Blue	p. 18
Camping in January	p. 19
Charge	p. 20
At Some Distance and Years Later	p. 21
Hansel in the Cage	p. 22
History of the Moon	p. 23
Of Longing in the Middle of February	p. 24
The Sort of Thing I Saw When I Was ...	p. 25
Migration	p. 26
Nostalgia for the Unfallen World	p. 27
The Throat's Memory of Happiness	p. 28
Sledge	p. 29
Broken	p. 30
Swarm	p. 31
Is	p. 32
Lemon Drops	p. 33
Fasque omne ruptum	p. 34
Revival	p. 35
Drawing for the Back of an Old Map	p. 36
One spot of red in the field of vision	p. 37
Politics	p. 38
See	p. 39
To Begin	p. 40
Orpheus	p. 41
Attention	p. 42
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