The Poetry Show: Deborah Gerrish -- Light in Light

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"I made you a poem packed with galaxies "

 

 

Poet Deborah Gerrish (of New Jersey) joins Janet and John and reads from her new book, Light in Light

Broadcasts LIVE Wednesdays at 10 AM

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded 11/1/2023

The Gift

by Deborah Gerrish

 

The Gift

 

    ---For Gerald Stern   

 

    "The world is but canvas to our imaginations."

            —Henry David Thoreau

I made you a poem packed with galaxies

out of map-green tint from the nettle tree—

swaddled in bark of birch silky scent,

twined in spirals with milk-white parchment.

I stitched in bright berries from holly

the high-pitched qui-qui of brown coqui,

wove diaphanous shells of cicadas

falling chimes of rain from La Paz,

robed it with flossy ribbons

of peony petals and phlox.

Another world of other worlds I place

on your doorstep in the evening’s haze.

Quietly. Listen past the music against

the scented page—Let it whisper.

 

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