Description
Book SynopsisBlue sky, yellow flowers, cool jazz, and Renaissance poetry all inhabit Betsy Sholl’s latest collection of poetry. Grounded in the everyday but never mundane, these poems remind readers of the wonders that surround us.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1
There Is a Fountain
Big Box
Practice
The Daffodils
On Reading
Bear
Starlings
Morning’s Only Yellow
Thinking of Jonah at the Children’s Museum
The Recital
Hurdy Gurdy
The Birthday Party
- 2
Dear Sky
A rabbi, a minister and a priest walk into a bar
On a Line by Charles Wright
Ladders of Paradise
Once in an Antique Shop
Missing Person
A Showing of Acorns
Ugly Beauty
Bargains
Everest
Happy, Happy, Happy
Slow Night at the Piano Bar
Thomas Merton Experiments with Meditations on Jazz
- 3
The Cocoon
Reading Revelation
On Ladders, Mystical and Otherwise
After the Keynote Address, the Drive Home
Bedtime
Thin Places
Elegy with Bats
Transmigrations
Corcomroe Abbey
The Sparrow in the Banquet Hall
Galway
Whatever Alights
- 4
Knot
At the Dealership
1985
One Step
Advent and Lamentation
Without You
Widow, Walking
The Bridge
Talk Radio
Crossing: Casco Bay
To Vincent Van Gogh in Heaven
Rainy Street, Portland, Maine
The Caterpillar
Miserere Mei, Deus
His Shaving Cuts
- Notes
