national poetry month 29

29 April 09

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Debra Nystrom -to Dan

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Continue……

Maddening shadow across your line of vision -

what might be there, then isn't, making it

hard to be on the lookout, concentrate, even

Hear - well, enough of the story I've

given you, at least - you've had your fill, never

asked for this, though you were the one

to put a hand out, catch hold, not about to let me

vanish the way of the two you lost already

Floater to grief's lure. I'm here; close your eyes,

listen to our daughter practicing, going over and over

the Bach, getting the mordents right, to make the lovely

Invention definite. What does mordent mean,

her piano teacher asked - I was waiting in the kitchen

and overheard - I don't know, something about dying?

No; morire means to die, mordere means to take

a bite out of something - good mistake, she said.

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Not to die, to take a bite - what you asked

of me - and then pleasure

in the taking. Close your eyes now,

listen. No one is leaving.

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Debra Nystrom

Debra Nystrom’s most recent book of poems is Torn Sky, from Sarabande Books. Her work has appeared in Slate, APR, The Yale Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.

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National Poetry Month is a month-long, national celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets. The concept is to widen the attention of individuals and the media� to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our complex poetic heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic range and concern.

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