I wrote this during a cabin visit with my wife, Jamie. I was up late writing in a notebook I brought with me, while drinking a cup of tea. The poem moves from immediate setting into pondering human existence and earth in a cosmic way. It reflects on the sun as an animating source and ends with the image of a sunfish to hint at containing power and sharing meaning.
Nathan Spoon on "A Cup of Tea" |
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Emily Bronte's Handwritten Poems Rediscovered
"A 'lost library' of British literature, including rare handwritten poems by Emily Brontë and works by Robert Burns, is to be auctioned off at Sotheby's....Emily's poems are expected to fetch somewhere between £800,000 and £1.2m. A first edition of her famous novel Wuthering Heights could fetch between £200,000 and £300,000."
via BBC NEWS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Corinna Vallianatos on Sylvia Plath's "Blackberrying"
"Nothing is ever nothing—description gives nothing shape. The seeing gains power, even as the one doing the seeing recedes. The bounty of what’s come before, the berries and their juices and the milkbottle the speaker uses to collect them, which brings to mind the body and domesticity, lifts at the end into the elemental, something seemingly less comforting but, to me, more so." |
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