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Green Age
Book by Ostriker, Alicia Suskin
- GenresPoetry
72 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1989
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker
49 books31 followersAlicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry.
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April 4, 2009
Can I concentrate, can I
Let my eyes and mind settle
On the papery bug
That had settled on the wood
Knob of the canvas
Garden chair
In my friend's backyard, that is
So early humming with bees, and is
Supposed to be relaxing -
The moth has to be thinking.
Its moth-face frowns.
The hair feelers, black-tipped , stand level.
It jumps and flies and I have
No words to describe its pin-jag track.
It flies away from the knob and back,
My fuzzy likeness,
My brother, seizing me with melancholy -
I'm on edge, it could be the coffee
And not enough sleep,
Could be the sense of all I cannot see
And cannot feel, and will die without learning. "
Let my eyes and mind settle
On the papery bug
That had settled on the wood
Knob of the canvas
Garden chair
In my friend's backyard, that is
So early humming with bees, and is
Supposed to be relaxing -
The moth has to be thinking.
Its moth-face frowns.
The hair feelers, black-tipped , stand level.
It jumps and flies and I have
No words to describe its pin-jag track.
It flies away from the knob and back,
My fuzzy likeness,
My brother, seizing me with melancholy -
I'm on edge, it could be the coffee
And not enough sleep,
Could be the sense of all I cannot see
And cannot feel, and will die without learning. "
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