Late Leisure: Poems

by Taylor, Eleanor Ross

• ISBN13: 9780807123560
• ISBN10: 0807123560
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

In these fifty-five poems that compose Late Leisure, Eleanor Ross Taylor shares dramatic, symbolic, intensely personal outpourings of her evolving consciousness -- "myself capriciously ongoing" -- as poet, woman, and elder. Though she has written throughout her life, it is now, in later years, that she blooms fullest, free of wifely and motherly occupations that nonetheless nurtured her artistry.

Table of Contents

Long-Dreaded Event Takes Place	p. 1
Diary Entry, March 24	p. 2
Retired Pilot Watches Plane	p. 3
Overgrown Path	p. 5
Salting the Oatmeal	p. 6
Completing the Pilgrimage	p. 7
Katydids Sewanee	p. 9
His Visit	p. 11
Te Deum	p. 12
A Place Apart	p. 13
The Nature of Gods	p. 16
The Lighthouse Keeper	p. 17
Dust	p. 18
A Change of State	p. 19
On Being Worldly	p. 20
Daytime Moon	p. 22
Sparrow Eats Fried Chicken Wing	p. 23
The Accidental Prisoner	p. 24
Dissonance	p. 26
How He Returned Thanks	p. 27
The Farmer in the Dell	p. 28
O Lamp	p. 31
The Diary	p. 32
Cloud Cover	p. 34
Joe Bolton, 1969-1990	p. 35
Find Me	p. 37
These Gifts	p. 38
Last Ant	p. 40
August Doves	p. 41
Why Angels Choir	p. 42
Cuts Buttons Off an Old Sweater	p. 43
Worlds Old and New	p. 44
Late Dinner	p. 47
Shaking the Plum Tree	p. 48
Always Reclusive	p. 49
A Harem of Hens	p. 50
Like One Concussed	p. 51
Contemplating Jailbreak	p. 52
Ending Winter	p. 54
Night Retrieves	p. 55
Sitting in the Dark, Morning	p. 56
Converse	p. 57
Cat	p. 59
One Last Warm Day	p. 60
Deer	p. 61
Afton Mountain	p. 62
Homecoming	p. 63
At Your Own Risk	p. 64
Cocoon	p. 65
Clothes from Three Planets	p. 66
Kitchen Fable	p. 67
The Hostage	p. 68
The Sky-Watcher	p. 69
Lift-Off	p. 70
Late Leisure	p. 71
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