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Hollow Out
"No one since John Haines' Winter News has written so well about the interminable winters, the snow, the cold and the human solitude of those living in polar regions. . . . Hollow Out is one of the most moving and original books of poems I have read in years."--Charles Simic
From "Hollow Out":
From "Breaking Point (When Temperatures Drop Low Enough)
Even tear ducts can only take so much
cold before freezing then weeping
an endless stream of tears.
This is all true.
Some days night never ends.
Some years there is no thaw.
From "Weather A Chance of Flurries"
I bless fish and fire that warm me.
I bless the long evenings with candles and the green braids of the night sky.
I bless the sun when it rises at noon.
I bless it when it sets again three hours later. I bless it for rising at all, and then I bless darkness.
I bless the tilt of the earth and ice that grows.
I bless the ravens that try terribly.
I bless the tired mittens of this long winter.
Kelsea Habecker spent five years as a teacher in a remote Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo village on the shore of the Arctic Ocean.
From "Hollow Out":
From "Breaking Point (When Temperatures Drop Low Enough)
Even tear ducts can only take so much
cold before freezing then weeping
an endless stream of tears.
This is all true.
Some days night never ends.
Some years there is no thaw.
From "Weather A Chance of Flurries"
I bless fish and fire that warm me.
I bless the long evenings with candles and the green braids of the night sky.
I bless the sun when it rises at noon.
I bless it when it sets again three hours later. I bless it for rising at all, and then I bless darkness.
I bless the tilt of the earth and ice that grows.
I bless the ravens that try terribly.
I bless the tired mittens of this long winter.
Kelsea Habecker spent five years as a teacher in a remote Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo village on the shore of the Arctic Ocean.
77 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2008
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About the author
Kelsea Habecker
3 books2 followersKelsea Habecker is a poet, writer, teacher, retreat leader, and personal coach.
Her collections of poetry include Hollow Out, selected by US Poet Laureate Charles Simic; The Walrus Wives, a chapbook; and North Wife, forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. - amazon bio
Her collections of poetry include Hollow Out, selected by US Poet Laureate Charles Simic; The Walrus Wives, a chapbook; and North Wife, forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. - amazon bio
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December 26, 2019
Tender and yet each poem evokes a clear sense of... The depths and darkness of a winters soul.
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