Poetry I am reading #3

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I am presently loving the works of Leslie Monsour.

The Book is called, "The Alarming Beauty of the Sky," and indeed the beauty of her words are as expansive and frightening as the sky.

Here are a couple of examples:

#1) in a poem entitled: "The Suddenness of the Past," she describes the killing of a hummingbird on her windshield in the perspective of attending her son's graduation with this phrase:

"Of red across the glass, a proof of being,
Caught in the wherenesses, a smear of now."

#2 And in a poem about a snail's consumption of her marigolds, she wrote:

"Its rapturous head in worldly leisure,
Oblivious, petal-blind."

'Petal-blind'? How brilliant a play on words! How typical of this stunning wordsmith. Trust me when I tell you that her poems are dangerous--they will stun you, time and again with their clarity and precision.