Gardening in the Dark
by Laura Kasischke
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Probes the lives of supposedly ordinary women, along with the extraordinary emotional tumult those lives may conceal.Tags
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I love Laura Kasischke. Met her at West Virginia Writer's Conference in 1996 or 1997, and I thought she was a great, down-to-earth teacher. Her poetry rocks, too.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2004
- Dedication
- for B.A. & J.A.
- First words
- Is this what you asked for, my friend, these words, is
this
what you meant when you said—? - Quotations
- May some beautiful evening in the future find you
sipping wine with your beloved
in a peaceful foreign country
while the lake moves full of shredded moon
and tiny candle-lit fish,
and the sound of a... (show all) violin
played expertly in another room
and my death, if it has come, not troubling you a bit.
--excerpt from "Happy Meal"
A voice says, Yes, Officer, I know
why it is I've been pulled over,
while you write it down,
as I always knew you would.
This gentle reckoning,
all my life,
I was driving toward it as fast as I could... (show all).
--excerpt from "Speeding Ticket"
Is this what maturity is?—the sense
of having been
detained at the station
long after I've already boarded the train?
My image
in the mirror
is invisible,
a breath stitched
to a silk slip... (show all)
in a moment of aloneness.
--excerpt from "Fortieth Birthday"
JANUARY
The howling pretends to bring on winter,
but the howling was there all along.
In the miniature roses, in the tiny bees,
in the glittering bits of whatever that was
we called the wind whe... (show all)n it was spring:
(Oh, remember, Sweetheart, we called it breeze.) - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Yes, Grandma, God rest your soul, we
will definitely have some weather,
but, for now,
the rides are quiet, the fun house is free, there are
no lines,
and at every gate a patient man or woman waits
for our tickets
with an open hand and a smile.
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