Sequels to an Uncollected Winter (2) – Compass Songs

by G. E. Murray

2. Cooking the Cold

In our smoke house,

in hot fog of hickory and buckeye chips,

we hang meats

like vignettes, independent

of all but the bones

we crack

and soup. Outside,

it’s the same white shimmering

Ohio country

we trust like an open palm,

like an apothecary.

And in these crosswinds,

as our fire builds,

stirrings of primordial dusk begin

fogging in.

                        Shelby County, Ohio. December 1974

 Compass Songs is an ongoing series of works by poets that I enjoy. Poetry, as the Zen Masters have said, is like a finger pointing to the moon. It speaks the unspeakable.

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