by
Dorianne Laux
New
Poets of America Series
"Dorriane
Laux's poems are sassy, pugnacious, and their voice is energized
with whatever glory sustains life.... Constantly rewarding..,
Awake is a book written with enormous precision and
beauty. It has such confidence in its authority, it overstates
nothing. Sculptured, economical, tough, possessing a vision
informed by experience and compassion, this is an astonishingly
mature first book, the wisest I have read in years."
- Philip Levine
Break
We
put the puzzle together piece
by
piece, loving how one curved
notch
fits so sweetly with another.
A
yellow smudge becomes
the
brush of a broom, and two blue arms
fill
in the last of the sky.
We
patch together porch swings and autumn
trees,
matching gold to gold. We hold
the
eyes of deer in our palms, a pair
of
brown shoes. We do this as the child
circles
her room, impatient
with
her blossoming, tired
of
the neat house, the made bed,
the
good food. We let her brood
as
we shuffle through the pieces,
setting
each one into place with a satisfied
tap,
our backs turned for a few hours
to
a world that is crumbling, a sky
that
is falling, the pieces
we
are required to return to.
Copyright © 1990 by BOA Editions
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editions:
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Cloth
ISBN: 1-880238-44-6
Price: $20.00
Publishing Date: January 1986
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ISBN: 1-880238-45-4
Price: $12.50
Publishing Date: January 1986
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