Day of the child : a poem / Arra Lynn Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Arra Lynn, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parenthood--Poetry.

Parenthood.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

51 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2021.

Summary:

"From Arra Lynn Ross, a tender, generous, and generative extended poem centered on the experience of parenthood"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The time-passing: your waterproof watch reads

2. Derive Not First from reason. Of Passion

3. By the time you are five, we make metaphors

4. You move too fast to catch, erasing, from mind

5. Go back to the boy jumping in barn hay

6. Again, morning's make: walking, a mother deer

7. Uphold heaven

humble & hurting, here

rapt

8. More magic: Morning. Choose a card, remember

9. Early light winds loose the air balloon curtains

10. Inside me I saw your heart. Made visible

11. Seven years blink: on river, rain's ink and bow

12. Made Meal. Of butterflies & milkweed & moon

13. My own: on the hard floor, refuses

14. And Dappled Bay Until the River, Morning Gray

15. The thread thins. December. Paris

16. Fine snow settles on the locusts' fallen branches;

17. In Plastic Cups the milky liquid poured

18. Of what is made merriment? Or, Innate

19. Until we make late February. Snow's

20. In the Living Room, the staple gun claps

21. Sing What you cannot hear in spoken words

22. A verb-poem. In winter, he writes: Blossoms

23. September 21, 2012: you (five) over me rolled

24. By What-you-tfowW-become. Un-willed

25. "With all my heart," nuzzling his bedhead

26. Spring blinks. Then, August's amber light. The cicada

27. And the bright blue blurred, in air, away. Ancient chant

28. The blue ball lies on the thick lawn, half-shadow

29. If I could, again: us, on the back deck, in sun

30. I waited for you to say you love me

31. I had a lot of fun, but now I'm old and gray

32. (would, of him, make a single blip) and trace

33. Children, perhaps, more than any, know, their bones

34. The butterflies are hatching in Dow Gardens'

35. A day of hardness in the heart, though I run

36. After dragging to Flagler's frog fountain

37. Some redbud saplings have not, I think, made it

38. As His father sifts for shark's teeth among shells

39. I go far away, to write. To Belgium

40. At nine, you come, most, to me, hurt or angry

41. The Narrow roads I walk, outside Olsene

42. When by me in the dusk my child sits down

43. By your works shall ye be known, my paper-folder

44. A kind of intoxication, rising up

45. I hang, on the line, laundry's smell like wind

46. Near evening. Long-limbed, tawny, lacquered shadows

47. Fever-gaunt, trembling, short of breath to speak

48. Me Half-way down the gravel, rain-rutted, drive

49. Learning to speak, you would mirror our words

50. Big elephant hang up towel, you said.

Other Format:

Online version: Ross, Arra Lynn, Day of the child

ISBN:

9781571315373

1571315373

OCLC:

1243028748