And Short the Season: Poems

Title: And Short the Season: Poems
Author: Maxine Kumin
G: 1705550
ISBN: 9780393241006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 112
Section: Poetry | American | General
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Publisher Description: A poet of piercing revelations and arresting imagery, Kumin is unforgettable, indispensable (New York Times Book Review). In And Short the Season she muses on mortality: her own and that of the earth. Always deeply personal, always political, these poems blend myth and modernity, fecundity and death, and the violence and tenderness of humankind.

From Whereof the Gift Is Small

And short the season, first rubythroat
in the fading lilacs, alyssum in bloom,
a honeybee bumbling in the bleeding heart
on my gelding's grave while beetles swarm
him underground. Wet feet, wet cuffs,
little flecks of buttercup on my sneaker toes,
bluets, violets crowding out the tufts
of rich new grass the horses nose
and nibble like sleepwalkers held fast--
brittle beauty--might this be the last?