Book Cover artwork: Claire Palmer
Half through Jack Foley’s Riverrun and loving it. Sad, exhilarating and imaginatively original true adventure in Poetry!!! Yes, I recommend it for all poetry lovers.
Finished! Superb. Many re-reads to come. Thank you!
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Poem
Once again
On the reading of Jack Foley’s Riverrun
Tough love
As they say…
A kick square in the syntax
Of ordinary losing
Where the heart must root out
New dimensions of growth
In the stone garden of memory.
As they say…
A kick square in the syntax
Of ordinary losing
Where the heart must root out
New dimensions of growth
In the stone garden of memory.
A Zenlike mode of transportation
Into peace between breathing,
And choosing not to feel
The hard negativity of loss.
Into peace between breathing,
And choosing not to feel
The hard negativity of loss.
Then
Suddenly
Change —
A small fragment of earth moves by
And the pale tendril,
The presumptuous green finger
Of a wild flower
Begins its declaration:
Suddenly
Change —
A small fragment of earth moves by
And the pale tendril,
The presumptuous green finger
Of a wild flower
Begins its declaration:
Here is life,
Here is death,
Here is the beginning of the end.
Here is the beginning
Of a moment contained again.
Here is death,
Here is the beginning of the end.
Here is the beginning
Of a moment contained again.
—Stephen Cole
Title Riverrun
Author Jack Foley
Publisher Poetry Hotel Press, 2016
ISBN 0989157849, 9780989157841