Divining for Starters (67)
in the suppressed gesture
of desire, if only to
gazes join, more wire than bridge
soft under the chin
as if to transcend by travel
fingertip fingertip
Divining for Starters (71)
in the quick of my wine
and trampling of sentiment
crucible of unrequited
walk down and down
nothing left to say
or there’s no appeasing
tentative on the ice
beauty I’d have beauty
quick into dearth
the steep pitch
proclivity predilection intention
make of it mi fabbro
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After nineteen years in Normal, Illinois, Carrie Etter moved to southern California, and thirteen years later, to England. Her poems and reviews have appeared widely in the UK and US, in such magazines as The New Republic, New Welsh Review, PN Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, The Rialto, Stand, and TLS, and her first collection, The Tethers, was published by Seren Books in June. In September Oystercatcher Press will bring out her pamphlet, The Son, which draws on the book manuscript Imagined Sons. Forthcoming works include Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, of which she is editor (March, 2010), and her second book, Divining for Starters (2011), both with Shearsman Books.
in the suppressed gesture
of desire, if only to
gazes join, more wire than bridge
soft under the chin
as if to transcend by travel
fingertip fingertip
Divining for Starters (71)
in the quick of my wine
and trampling of sentiment
crucible of unrequited
walk down and down
nothing left to say
or there’s no appeasing
tentative on the ice
beauty I’d have beauty
quick into dearth
the steep pitch
proclivity predilection intention
make of it mi fabbro
===
After nineteen years in Normal, Illinois, Carrie Etter moved to southern California, and thirteen years later, to England. Her poems and reviews have appeared widely in the UK and US, in such magazines as The New Republic, New Welsh Review, PN Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, The Rialto, Stand, and TLS, and her first collection, The Tethers, was published by Seren Books in June. In September Oystercatcher Press will bring out her pamphlet, The Son, which draws on the book manuscript Imagined Sons. Forthcoming works include Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, of which she is editor (March, 2010), and her second book, Divining for Starters (2011), both with Shearsman Books.
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