Walking Through The Horizon.Walking Through The Horizon Margaret Holley The University of Arkansas Press The University of Arkansas Press is a university press that is part of the University of Arkansas. External link
201 Ozark, Fayetteville, AR 72701 1557288127 $16.00 www.uapress.com Walking Through The Horizon is a timeless collection of occasionally inspiring, sometimes intimate, and often insightful poetry drawn from the works of Margaret Holley. These are tactful and creative poems of philosophy, observation, and resplendent re·splen·dent adj. Splendid or dazzling in appearance; brilliant. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin resplend beauty. Sleeping In The Inland Sea: Tonight we wake in a Precambrian wind/that sends the mesquite leaves and acacia petals/flying like snow. Phoenix city lights waver/on the floor of the vast inland sea that is still smoothing/the rounded humps of Camelback cam·el·back adj. Shaped like a hump or an arching curve. n. New Orleans A narrow house with one story in front and two in the rear. See Regional Note at beignet. and Squaw Peak./Seabirds sleep in the ark of our porch,/as waves lap at the bouldered shore of the Black Mountain./The wind chimes clang like a buoy bell in the current./We rarely speak in these 3 a.m. wakings,/preferring to reach and sleepily hold, as if words were yet/to be invented. As if we had not yet outgrown our gills./As if the city strewn strew tr.v. strewed, strewn or strewed, strew·ing, strews 1. To spread here and there; scatter: strewing flowers down the aisle. 2. to the south like stars/were a vision, as mirage, a destination,/something our dumb clinging is meant to serve./Where are we sailing to, packed into the hulls/of our oarless oar n. 1. A long, thin, usually wooden pole with a blade at one end, used to row or steer a boat. 2. A person who rows a boat, especially in a race. v. oared, oar·ing, oars v. beds like so much cargo?/How many eons will it take us to reach the shore/of morning, to fit our voices around the habitual courtesies/of our old and forgetful souls? |
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