Love poems in quarantine
Book - 2022
"A collection of poems written by Sarah Ruhl"--
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| Language: | English |
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Port Townsend, Washington :
Copper Canyon Press,
[2022]
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g One. Early days of quarantine -- |t What are we folding when we are folding laundry in quarantine? -- |t Easter poem during plague time (because there is no fake grass to put in your baskets this year, but there is real grass instead) -- |t Menopause in quarantine -- |t On homesickness, back when we traveled -- |t Behold and be-held -- |t March -- |t The sun in quarantine -- |t Regeneration -- |t Poems and dreams are free -- |t To Max Ritvo, who once said to me: -- |t A spider in our bed -- |t Differences between me and my dog -- |t Poems are good company -- |t Three kinds of light -- |g Two. Poems written after May 25, the day George Floyd was murdered -- |t White backup singers, June 1 -- |t Fire sermon -- |t Separating the laundry, June 6 -- |t Weekapaug -- |t For Robyn Tamura -- |t Whiteness near the Fourth of July 2020 -- |t Prom, 1989 -- |t A white lady at a theater cocktail party -- |t Fires -- |t Mothers' Day -- |t An end to apartheid in America -- |g Three. Haiku, tanta and senryū in quarantine -- |g Spring -- |t Crossing -- |t Love poem to my husband, who fixed the Scotch tape dispenser today -- |t Poppy anemone -- |t Was my poetry party a super-spreader? -- |t Haiku written with my son in March -- |t When in doubt, count -- |t Nonessential workers -- |t Yard -- |t Sleeping very late -- |t When I was a child I loved to watch soap bubbles pop in the evening air -- |t "I lose socks in the" -- |t Teaching on Zoom -- |t For Kathleen -- |t Ambiguity of red -- |t What day is it? -- |t Koan -- |t Sisyphus -- |t For Elvis Costello, who said to me: -- |t "I will teach you how" -- |t Quarantine, day 20 -- |t "Look out your window:" -- |t Dog mind -- |t The woman who was bagging my groceries, when I asked how she was, said: -- |t A riddle, the answer: live theater -- |t Trio on Zoom -- |t I am running out of things to cook -- |t For my oldest daughter -- |t And that is enough for now -- |t "In the city I noticed" -- |t Swallow -- |t I read that people who groom more during quarantine are happier and it seems like a chicken-or-egg situation but my friend tells me about foot masks so I buy one -- |t "When will we ever" -- |t Midday, and the children come out of their rooms where they have been learning on screens -- |t Watching the food lines grow in New Jersey -- |t Quarantine, day 90 -- |t Remembered poem of a second grader named Patrick, Queens, twenty-five years ago -- |t Another reason dogs are wise -- |t The shortest story -- |t "How holy, that day" -- |t It used to be very impolite -- |g Summer -- |t On a Zoom call, watching my in-laws throw my father-in-law's ashes into the sea -- |t Remembering a time we could eat oysters together -- |t While I am on a work Zoom call, my son -- |t White people make bread while Black and Brown people die in America -- |t A negative test while the moon rises -- |t Birthday haiku for Uncle Joe written on Zoom -- |t This summer -- |t How white am I? -- |t My daughter asked me when she was three: -- |t On time zones -- |t "My dog rubbed herself" -- |t Love and mess -- |t Equal taste -- |t Coral -- |t Mediation, day 121 of quarantine -- |t Polish the stone or the mind -- |t Walking in the dark -- |t In Tibet it is said that when -- |t Watching the bird fly standing still -- |t Shelter -- |t Move your pants before the tide comes in -- |t Time decides -- |t For Anne's seventy-sixth birthday -- |t Sunset -- |t For Tony -- |t And today all that happened was -- |t Communion wafer in the night sky -- |t For Anne -- |t Night-blooming cereus -- |t On entitled Brooklyn parents -- |t For John Cage, who said: -- |t My dog tries to walk into our old house -- |t Lawn mowers and Bashō's grass pillow -- |t You ask me to look in your eyes, and the familiar and unfamiliar rhyme -- |t If a dead butterfly can still fly, what does that signify? -- |t Can sea cucumbers be instructive? -- |t My children are baking bread again -- |t It was not a day for singing -- |t Large waves and children -- |t Immortality through property -- |t On a walk I saw a snake, a rabbit, and a dead rat -- |t I am a messy cook and this annoys my husband who is an orderly cook -- |t I think about patience while I chop mushrooms -- |t To my children -- |t This morning -- |t Today -- |t What is a child's duty? -- |t Quarantine in August, the overripe month -- |g Fall -- |t Cause and effect -- |t Meditation, day 207 -- |t Your body, a temple -- |t Attempt at holding opposing truths in the mind -- |t "Don't store your anger" -- |t A photo from when I was sick -- |t Waiting for a storm -- |t A shuttered business -- |t "There is no cure for" -- |t Bell's palsy, ten years out -- |t "Could I live in the" -- |t Books as food -- |t Tomorrow and tomorrow and time zones -- |t An argument -- |t I wear your sweater for extra warmth -- |t Is God a who or a what when the world falls apart? -- |t "Do you have grief to spare?" -- |t Books don't spread germs -- |t Block island -- |t Election day is windy in Rhode Island and the weather report says that -- |t "I thought it was a mist..." -- |t Alchemy -- |t "I was a child of" -- |t Hungry ghosts -- |g Winter -- |t As the days get shorter and shorter -- |t Today I learned that in kindergarten, a boy named -- |t "My first love came with" -- |t Snowstorm -- |t Again, snow -- |t Still life -- |t When I see you again -- |t "Computers can be" -- |t "The moon rises just" -- |t I made two false assumptions looking at a red cardinal -- |t Tanka, January 6 -- |t Boiling water isn't mad at the tea -- |t "This field. This snow. This" -- |t "Are you studying" -- |t Mediating outdoors -- |t Playing card games with others -- |t Meditation, January 18 -- |t Meditation, January 19 -- |t Nap -- |t Late afternoon -- |t Lesson from quarantine -- |t Upon walking -- |t Winter in Illinois -- |t A person can be pedantic about anything -- |t Counting the stars is impossible -- |t I'm scared of the desk today, so -- |t "The doors don't quite shut" -- |t And I was so happy -- |t "Why is my gaze so" -- |t Passage from one yard to another -- |t And all the frozen snow melted today -- |t I don't know anything about time -- |g Spring again -- |t And after all that -- |t A year since quarantine began -- |t "I am lucky: when" -- |t What of my eyes and their infallibility? -- |t "I no longer know" -- |t "There are things I must" -- |t "Instead of writing," -- |t My glasses sit on the rug -- |t Scrolling upon waking up -- |t I have brought my dog with me. Why? -- |t What is the holy name, you or the Lord? -- |t After the long winter -- |t "My dog writes for me" -- |t Freedom -- |t Horse racing -- |t The volunteers at the senior center vaccine parking lot, |t Six months without a barber and -- |t Equinox -- |t Seeing or showing -- |t Noon -- |t After all, it is irrational to be afraid of mold, which will come unless you eat the fruit -- |t Walking in a spring rain -- |t As in chess and other games... -- |t For three years I -- |t Sometimes God is when strangers touch -- |t Needs -- |t Changing the locks -- |t When my daughter heard the story of Oedipus -- |t "My dog sits zazen" -- |t I will try to -- |t There is a house somewhere -- |t I read somewhere that your cuts heal faster when you are in love and today -- |t "I want to be a" -- |t Morning dove -- |t Talking things over, we looked up and saw -- |t I, on top of you, looking at your face, and -- |t In the place where you were born -- |t Another storm -- |t "The window is shut" -- |t I learned that quarantine meant 40 days and now it's day 400 -- |t "What the earth does well" -- |t Poem catching -- |t "Where is the birdcall?" |
| 520 | |a "A collection of poems written by Sarah Ruhl"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 520 | |a "An award-winning, multi-genre writer grapples with the pandemic, death of George Floyd, and other crises of our times in gnomic poems written from inside the purgatory (and sudden revelations) of quarantine."--Amazon.com | ||
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