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On "Silence"
by
Kate Reavey |
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On
"Silence"
after the 11th
Does it mean
no questions from Maeve
about the sound of helicopters
overhead? Or just
no answers?
Does it mean
a head bowed low
where beetles scurry
close to the roots--
mealy and dark--
that feed them?
Or is it simply this: the possibility
of listening, of hearing
a full breath,
a simple, human breath
across the thousand swaying greens,
the leaves of September change...
Copyright @2001 Kate Reavey
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About The Author |
 KATE REAVEY'S poetry is as
much inspired by the rhythms of weather and seasonal change as it is by human
relationships. A student of Gary Snyder, Reavey has published two limited edition,
letter-pressed chapbooks, "Through the East Window" (Sagittarius) and
"Trading Posts" (Tangram). She is co-director of the Foothills Writers
Series, founder of the Poetry at the Brewery series in Port Angeles, and adjunct poetry
editor for the Pharos, Journal of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Medical Society. Her
poetry has appeared in Mothering magazine, the Western Journal of Medicine, and on the
Lost Mountain Poesia. She and her husband make their home in the foothills of the
Olympic mountains, where Reavey worked five seasons as a park ranger and six years as a
college instructor before settling into life with two small children. She is
currently at work on a collaboration with another poet (who is also a labor/delivery
nurse) on a collection of stories about childbirth. |
| Kate Reavey's recent publication, "Too Small
to Hold You", can be ordered from Pleasure Boat Studio http://www.pbstudio.com |
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