{"id":10355,"date":"2017-05-26T16:47:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T20:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=10355"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:58:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:58:59","slug":"coming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming About"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 74 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-945588-00-6<\/p>\n

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Coming About<\/em><\/h1>\n

Michelle Gillett<\/h2>\n

\u201c\u2026Whether the subject is the Holocaust, a summer house, the death of parents, maternal anxiety, gardening, love, or memory, the poems totter between sorrow at the passage of time and finding a way to face the future. That mode may not always be completely hopeful, but she finds ways to avoid despair. As she says in \u2018Elephant Hearts\u2019: \u2018Like anyone who\u2019d give her heart to change what cannot be moved, I favor resemblances.\u2019 As she examines the various choices she has made, she reminds herself: \u2018it is easy to forget how close\/ I came to the wrong life.\u2019 She is also always aware she is leasing, not \u2018buying\u2019, time. And as she plants 300 daffodil bulbs in the last poem in this volume, she knows she is \u2018planting for a season I can only imagine\u2026.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014from the preface by Jacquelyn Malone <\/em><\/p>\n

“Vespids” from\u00a0Coming About<\/em>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s down. The hornets’ nest.
\nNow first sting of frost on the ground
\nand we see no threat
\nonly the hollow where harm lived.
\nEverything the season housed has flown:
\nyellow jackets idling low in the grass,
\nbats fanning the dusk, the hornets
\nthreading close to the roof.
\nWhen we were children
\nwe\u2019d leap from our beds,
\narms flung wide. In the seconds
\nbefore landing, we didn\u2019t know fear
\nresides in gravity or stars fall
\ninto themselves. We imagined rising
\nover the roofs not like souls
\ndetached from bodies, but as bodies
\nresisting the world. Light in my hands
\nwhen I lifted it from the eave, fervor gone,
\nno longer wadded in industry, this testament
\nto vanishings is too fragile to hold.<\/div>\n

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