1. Long after Hopkins
Brian Teare
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2. Long after Hopkins
Nothing at dusk, lord, but dust
and road to keep it. The field kneels
under white pines, umbra the edge
to whom this is addressed :
a mind part fern, part birch :
two turkeys slowly S-ing their necks
through inflorescence, arrangement
more precise than what light leaves
fields : painterly flowers more color
than picture, more words for color
than tint : alizarin or violet, you could
write goldenrod, write cornflower,
but Queen Anne's lace still hems
the low horizon. Faith, what is it
abides, what's left of pastoral Continued…….
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3. Long after Hopkins
but unreality. Ask artifice. Ask ornament.
Go ahead and ask : what principle
animates the natural : owl pink Lady's Slipper
orchid white-tailed deer woodchuck :
is it only what's visible that's knowable.
Twenty dandelions gone to seed;
tent worms slung in the articulated
tree; what's tiresome : mind
unanswered, writing to supply
scaffolds to hold up scenery, nothing
but queries and plywood, string
strung to a high struck bell auguring :
it's too late to see a third turkey
left headless, wreck of feathers
the owl scared, scattered in grass -
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4. Brian Teare
Brian Teare is the recipient of Stegner, NEA,
and MacDowell Colony poetry fellowships. He
is the author of The Room Where I Was Born,
a finalist for the Northern California Book
Award, and winner of the 2003 Brittingham
Prize and the 2004 Triangle Award for Gay
Poetry. His poetry and criticism have
appeared in Ploughshares, Boston Review,
Verse, How2 and Seneca Review, among
other journals. He lives in Oakland, CA, and
teaches at the California College of Arts.
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5. National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month is a month-long, national celebration of
poetry established by the Academy of American Poets. The
concept is to widen the attention of individuals and the media
— to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our complex poetic
heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic
range and concern.

6. THANK
YOU
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