Erin Moure

Erín Moure writes:

It was a hard enough job, I think, being this man. It didn't necessarily come to him naturally. I think naturally he would have been a field of high grasses with a high water-table and special small birds that need both this grass and water. He would be the grass where the dew hits it and reflects glints of the sky.

He told me once that the most important thing about the sky, that most people forget or never acknowledge, is that it comes down to the ground. In fact the sky show more touches the ground. We don't have to look upward to be in the sky, we are always in it, it meets us and touches us.

The outlines of our bodies are always, always, touched by this sky.

I've never forgotten that. show less

Really neat ideas in poetry writing.