[Stylist] great poem by Max Garland

[CHERYL FIELDS]

Love this, thank you.

Cheryl E. Fields


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> On Nov 11, 2021, at 1:33 PM, Ann Chiappetta via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> In the Meantime
> Max Garland
> https://poets.org/poem/meantime?mc_cid=830cbe711a&mc_eid=db914003ad
> The river rose wildly every seventh spring
> or so, and down the hatch went the town,
> just a floating hat box or two, a cradle,
> a cellar door like an ark to float us back
> into the story of how we drown but never
> for good, or long. How the ornate numbers
> of the bank clock filled with flood, how
> we scraped minute by minute the mud
> from the hours and days until the gears
> of time started to catch and count again.
> Calamity is how the story goes, how
> we built the books of the Bible. Not
> the one for church, but the one the gods
> of weather inscribed into our shoulder
> blades and jawbones to grant them grit
> enough to work the dumb flour of day
> into bread and breath again. The world
> has a habit of ending, every grandmother
> and father knew well enough never to say,
> so deeply was it stained into the brick
> and mind. We live in the meantime
> is how I remember the length of twilight
> and late summer cicadas grinding the air
> into what seemed like unholy racket to us,
> but for them was the world’s only music.
>  
> Copyright © 2021 by Max Garland. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on November 11, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.
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