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My foreshadow stretches
out in front of me.
We stand on the soles
of each other's feet.
I am a field
and there's a man
standing in the middle
of me saying,
God is the sky pinning
me to my body.
I am a man
and there is a field
under me saying,
A dead man makes
love to the earth
by just lying there.
- Matt Rasmussen
This fine poet was selected for the Walt Whitman Award by a favorite poet of mine, Jane Hirshfield. And he was just nominated for the National Book Award on October 16th. He has a job teaching poetry at a college in Minnesota, so I envy him a tad too.
New to me - and perhaps to you too - his work is clean and spare.
You will find more on his Poets.org page.
MFB on a deluge-y day,
L
p.s. In researching Mr. Rasmussen, I stumbled upon this fabulous page featuring free e-books that contain excerpts from all the National Book Award nominees! How great is that?
