Mary Ruefle
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The Lady of the House Puts the Alarm Clock in a Drawer
‘Lightly, Very Lightly’ by Mary Ruefle It was raining. I could hear the raintaking the pins out of her mouth.Soft rain became hard rainso that hard things became soft things.The wet leaves under the trees became heavy as diapers,the book left openon the grasscould finally sink in her bathwithout a word,the way, after a hard…
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“Rosewater, Chicken Fat, and Pinecones”
Wikipedia Poem, No. 972 cloves to me finish the beginning not first in air i have a special mixture my exclusive time requires drips i’ve made up my nose: first mind the drips die then do no such thing required of me since air is not so casually soaked in ragged strips of exclusivity time…
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‘When Adults Talk’ by Mary Ruefle
I am not even vaguely interested, though for a quarter I could be. I was not allowed to move but when my leg went deadI cheered it on in the first place. When they whisper they ought to wear a lead vest.Their lips look like personified oysters. When they shout it is usually addressedto the…
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Wet Thoroughly with Product and Allow to Dry Without Wiping
Wikipedia Poem, No. 628 survive this bridge say nothing intrinsically unnecessary superfluous and suppose that a poet who advises that little-better speak he whose role is it to enfeeble language speak a little looser better advised and thereby unnecessary and superfluous and superfluous and suppose as a poet who advises the deep-seated one day countess…
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George Seferis (1900-1971)
“But to say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years and years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again. ” Seferis, as quoted in Mary Ruefle’s “Madness, Rack, and Honey”, p. 191.
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Invest in Hydrangeas
Wikipedia Poem, No. 469 you don’t like your opinions but because i’m a flatterer or something i loved it is nothing to alter its dimensions i’m a flatterer vested in hydrangeas or something black and ravaged wielding love is that you afraid of love simply because i’m a flatterer and have flattered before or is…
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Mary Ruefle
think like that no like that sniff around a burrow don’t hunt birds think like this no like this raccoons yes groundhogs yes opossum definitely yes think for yourself no not like that not the robin though nor the house sparrow here give me the controller let me have a go at it nor the…
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from ‘On Secrets’ by Mary Ruefle
“When you are walking down a city street and not paying much attention—perhaps you are downtrodden by some confusion—and come suddenly upon a rose bush blooming against a brick wall, you may be struck and awakened by the appearance of beauty. But the rose is not beautiful. You think the rose is beautiful and so you…
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Recent Notes
A couple of days worth of scribbles from one Google Doc. Much recent work is for publication elsewhere. The blog may be relatively quiet. Apologies. Enjoy my head turned inside out and gently browned. 03192017 In astronomy, the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters (Messier 45 or M45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type…
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