By Vicki Hearne
From the pony That, Trotting The horse that, trotting with open heartAgainst the wind, achieves bend and flowWill reside ceaselessly. up to now, so good, But they by no means do, until eventually too late,Bend correctly and time spreads fromThe temporary hesitations Of their spines, circles their tossing necks, Falls from their enamel like rejected oats,Litters the floor like penitence. This is the place we are available in, the place the dropOf time congeals the air and an individual Speaks to the discouraged grass . . . Tricks of the sunshine explores the customarily fraught relationships among family animals and people via mythological figurations, shiny suggestion, and late-modern lyrics that appear to check their very own limitations. Vicki Hearne (1946–2001), most sensible recognized and celebrated at the present time as a author of strikingly unique poetry and prose, used to be a able puppy and horse coach, and occasionally debatable animal advocate.This definitive selection of Hearne’s poetry spans the whole lot of her illustrious profession, from her first booklet, frightened Horses (1980), to never-before-published poems composed on her deathbed. yet irrespective of the resource, each one of her meditative, metaphysical lyrics possesses that infrequent mix of philosophical hypothesis, useful wisdom of animals, and an strangely based variety in contrast to that of the other poet writing this present day. sooner than her premature dying, Hearne entrusted the manuscript to unique poet, pupil, and long-time pal John Hollander, whose creation presents either serious and private perception into the poet’s magnum opus. methods of the Light—acute, shiny, and deeply informed—is a sensuous reckoning of the relationship among people and the flora and fauna. Praise for The components of Light “Hearne . . . strives to seize precisely what she understands she can't—the severe immediacy of animal realization, a cognizance freed from the ethical vagaries and highbrow preoccupations that pockmark human adventure. Her type, gentle in a few areas, uneven in others, displays either the wholeness of animal presence and the jarring, fragmentary nature of human cause and mirrored image. Hearne's poems call for participation, refuse passive leisure; she dares the reader to stick within the saddle.”—Publishers Weekly (20080311)
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The price. It is worth the price. It is worth it, for it must be worth it. P Then Philosophy The inch worm is crystal clear With this green. Touch it with doubt And the world succumbs at once, Vanishing into the bruise. The municipalities Of idea that replace 35 The history of inch worm Brilliance are the expert Province of the world as it Quite departs. Is supplanted. Memory muses better Of it as we make query Of new fruit from a new world. P Side View (Alumna Report) The organism bores through, Has side effects, everyone Knows all about them, loses Patience with them in time Patience loses too, whether To love or psoriasis.
A group of horses swinging their necks Resonate too, until the brightest Of the pities dims them, the latest Foal agrees to ordure, grabs at rest, Reimbursed by rumors that confuse Their kind with kindness. Soon the mountains Frown and lean over us; the frightened Horses forget the veracities Of the haute école, plundered of trust. All of us love unforgivably, Each time, too, the mountains gather So expressively. Unless we ask 32 The horses how they think of mountains, How they live for beauty, how we do, Knowledge is qualified, limited As theirs is in the shy glare of love.
The sleek dogs Hear the babble as babble, Laugh as the light of pity Fattens on the elegance Their careless strides still fling out Like the seeds of gaiety Into the air of malice. When your good hound goes missing, Something he knew may be what Holds him to earth at the death, While the fox frolics, fabled For taking the sporting view Of destruction; this is not Domesticity; the fox Is swift and sly; the ashes Of the hounds the fox outran Curl in the (call it) spring Air and will do to remind Us of the hound as well as 28 What of Alexandria Remains in educated Fugues without darkness.