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The Nor' Eastern Cycle
by Anita MacThe day covers me,
a cool blanket against
the achy turmoil of
all-summer-long.
This is the New England of childhood:
a creamy sort of afternoon.
I sigh a sigh that carries
back to cemeteries,
the sentinels of one-room schoolhouses
across the region,
echoing the sentiment forward.
This is what we do,
this is how we work,
and if we stop—
the Cold will surely have us…
11/03/2010 Posted on 11/03/2010
Copyright © 2024 Anita Mac
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 11/03/10 at 04:06 PM Indeed. Quick, clever and wonderfully written. |
| Posted by V. Blake on 11/03/10 at 04:21 PM I was going to quote the first couple of lines here, then the second, then the third, and all the way to the end. This whole thing is awesome. |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 11/04/10 at 03:43 PM I like this kind of day, how you embrace it and offer it to me. I would like to read more of "what we do" and "how we work". I like seeing the contrast between the cool blanket and the ever underlying "Cold". |
| Posted by Tony Whitaker on 11/09/10 at 10:34 PM Very nice imagery. Makes me think of New England clam chowder on a winter's afternoon! |
| Posted by Therese Elaine on 11/10/10 at 04:14 AM The line, 'a creamy sort of afternoon' is absolutely delectable...this poem has both simplicity and complex richness and I love that you can both admire it as a whole and sink your fingers in and pick out plums...lovely, Anita! |
| Posted by Therese Elaine on 11/10/10 at 04:14 AM The line, 'a creamy sort of afternoon' is absolutely delectable...this poem has both simplicity and complex richness and I love that you can both admire it as a whole and sink your fingers in and pick out plums...lovely, Anita! |
| Posted by Laura Doom on 11/14/10 at 10:49 AM The living dead, a caution to the dead living. A pleasure to visit your temperate zone... |
| Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 11/28/10 at 02:28 PM on this sunny, but wintry like day, this poem blankets me warm and soothing. the sooth and the warmth and the blanket of which I am hesitant to peel. |
| Posted by Johnny Crimson on 12/10/10 at 08:04 PM Then I say let if have us, well done! |
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