Sweet Curdle.

Sweet Curdle 

Cathryn Cofell

Marsh River Editions

M233 Marsh Road, Marshfield, WI 54449

0977276821, $10.00 www.marshrivereditions.com

"Sweet Curdle" is a compilation of poetry by Wisconsin poet, public speaker, workshop facilitator, and literary activist Cathryn Cofell. She has served as an advisor to the Wisconsin Governor for the creation of a state Poet Laureate, as the founding Chair of the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission, and as a board member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Cathryn's skill and imagination are reflecting on every page with poems that fully compel the reader's rapt attention and total appreciation. 'Emergency Exit': She walks away, around the outside circle/of the concert hall, toward the man exactly//opposite. He is far enough off to be only/a hulking figure in a brimmed hat, faceless//as a drop of rain, yet close enough to mean/the rest of her life made beautiful.//She moves toward him deliberate as prayer, but even/as our distance grows, I see she can barely//hold back, that only the crowd, this mass of bodies/and nerves keeps her from dropping her bag,//her cumbersome shoes, from running full tilt into those/arms she moans about, tossing like witchcraft,//her own arms wild open to embrace, this moment/of all things possible, this sweeter than any end.