Thursday, January 6, 2011

These Apparitions

These Apparitions

The car is dappled with stars of frost,
cloves embedded in an orange.

Over the road, a black cloud of starlings
converges and pulls apart like velcro.

Here, let me obstruct that for you,
the morning says. I take up its voice

twenty-seven miles later, nearly miss
my exit for the new smoothness

of the road, orange construction signs
and cones extinguished, potholes

stubbed out. Out of everything I have not
seen today, this week, and ever,

why these apparitions. What do I volunteer
to my attention. What is hiding.

5 comments

  1. I like this a lot. It's thought-provoking.

    That second stanza creates a wonderful image. The unexpected "pulls apart like velcro" enhances it.

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  2. Starlings DO fly like that. Just like that. Well observed!

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  3. the road, the construction sites, the frost, the nearly missed exit all look prettier after you describe them...happy Thursday Hannah xx

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  4. Very fitting to the new year, I think.

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  5. Volunteering our attention, that is something I don't consider, the giving up of ourselves to point towards something else. I like it. Thanks, Hannah, for a well written, thought-inducing poem.

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