Kate Northrop Poems
- 1. Unfinished Landscape With A Dog
Not much of a dog yet,
that smudge in the distance, beyond the reach
of focus. It's just an impressionist
... - 2. The Visitor
Down the hill, in the field of sweet alfalfa, they're
freezing each other, the children
playing tag and I'm up at the house, I'm
... - 3. The Geranium
How can you stand it-looking at things?
For example, the geranium
out on the patio, the single pink
... - 4. The Dead
Their reward is
they become innocent again,
and when they reappear in memory
... - 5. On The Hotel Balcony
-sundown, Miami
They've come through the sliding door,
her first,
... - 6. Late Aubade & Explanation
Once in a field, in a wide rising stretch of paintbrush
& purple vetch, we stuck down
a tent, like punctuation, and drank through the evening
... - 7. Iowa & Other Accidents
There was snow that afternoon covering the road
which twisted toward the secret
of water, the mysterious surge
... - 8. Hiding
-to my sister
Because the moon in late October made landmarks glow: the broken
gate, our yard
... - 9. Affair With Various Endings
I. Kempton, Pennsylvania
Perhaps the last of the light
lifting this evening from the field of wheat
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