Bird in the Hand
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- Synopsis
-
From the book:
Sighted Guide Technique at the
Fine Arts Work Center
In your hands the poems in their Braille versions grow longer, thicker, whiter.
They are giving themselves goose bumps, they are that good. Still they are only as good as themselves.
We are two
people wide
for the purposes of this exercise.
Remembering that is my technique, it's that
simple. Remembering it well is success.
Success is simply paying attention.
Like a poem with very long lines
we appear a little wider, move a little slower
than most of the community of haiku poets
leaping past us with a few right words.
A word about doors: they open
inward or outward, turn
clockwise or counterclockwise, depending
on something that you and I
will probably never grasp.
Doorknobs dance away
and the songs of the common house sparrow
who is everywhere, you say, play in the eaves
as we pass together through the door
to the world,
you holding my elbow,
your elbow and mine making two
triangles trawling the air
for the tunneling, darting, juking, ubiquitous brown birds.
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 33 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780978538200
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 07/15/08
- Copyrighted By:
- Paul Hostovsky
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Animals, Poetry, Disability-Related
- Submitted By:
- Barbara Wagreich
- Proofread By:
- Lena
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.