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The moon rises as Shizu rises from her couch,
still in the shadow of her husband
who puts her to work early at his vegetable stand.
The mountains take the light.
Her calligraphy, the dark brush stroke
with which she frees herself,
lies in loose sheets on her drawing table.
The tide recedes, the tectonic plates
grind into the flesh of the peninsula.
She is one grain of sand
in the rippling ground well —
a fan opening and closing.
Ruth Stone
Ordinary Words (1999)
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Ruth Stone (1915-2011)
Academy of American Poet – Ruth Stone
The Poetry Foundation – Ruth Stone
Modern American Poets – Ruth Stone
What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems
Madeleine DeFrees (1919-2015)
Academy of American Poets – Madeleine DeFrees
Blue Dusk: New and Selected Poems (2001)
Denise Levertov (1923-1997)
Academy of American Poets – Denise Levertov
The Poetry Foundation – Denise Levertov
Modern American Poets – Denise Levertov
The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov (2014)
Maya Angelou (1928-2014 )
The Academy of American Poets – Maya Angelou
The Poetry Foundation – Maya Angelou
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (2009)
Poems Online
Mary Oliver (1935-)
The Academy of American Poets – Mary Oliver
The Poetry Foundation – Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems, Vol. I (1992) and New and Selected Poems, Vol. II (2005)
Louise Glück (1943-)
The Academy of American Poets – Louise Glück
The Poetry Foundation – Louise Glück
Marilyn Nelson (1946-)
The Academy of American Poets – Marilyn Nelson
The Poetry Foundation – Marilyn Nelson
Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems (1997) and Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011 (2012)
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995)
The Academy of American Poets – Jane Kenyon
The Poetry Foundation – Jane Kenyon
Otherwise: New & Selected Poems (1997)
Joy Harjo (1951-)
The Academy of American Poets – Joy Harjo
The Poetry Foundation – Joy Harjo
How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2001 (2002)
“She Had Some Horses” (read aloud by the poet)
More: Native American Women Poets
Rita Dove (1952-)
The Academy of American Poets – Rita Dove
The Poetry Foundation – Rita Dove
Modern American Poets – Rita Dove
Selected Poems (1993)
Ana Castillo (1953-)
The Poetry Foundation – Ann Castillo
My Father was a Toltec and Selected Poems, 1973-1988 and I Ask the Impossible (2011)
Marilyn Chin (1955-)
The Academy of American Poets – Marilyn Chin
The Poetry Foundation – Marilyn Chin
Modern American Poets – Marilyn Chin
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow (2003)
and The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty (2009)
Posted in The Daily Poems, tagged Green Apples, Ruth Stone on September 10, 2011| 1 Comment »
In August we carried the old horsehair mattress
to the back porch
and slept with our children in a row.
The wind came up the mountain into the orchard
telling me something:
saying something urgent.
I was happy.
The green apples fell on the sloping roof
and rattled down.
The wind was shaking me all night Long,
shaking me in my sleep
like a definition of love,
saying, this is the moment,
here, now.
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