a moment ago he was in his chair
reading she was lighting the fire
she thought she heard a book
drop to the floor he didn’t answer
in an instant she sensed it
a tangible space across an opening
she could neither enter nor fill
as if his eye hit upon a passage
elegant and cruel and true”
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“Day-Old Widow Poem” by C.D. Wright
The poet C.D. Wright died in her sleep on Tuesday night at the age of 67. She was a well-known writer, a winner of a MacArthur “genius” grant and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a longtime teacher at Brown University.
Critic Craig Morgan Teicher says, “Wright left us not only a record of what she saw, but of her way of seeing, her slant, from which Truths will always be visible.”
‘Elegant And Cruel And True’: The Life And Death Of Poet C.D. Wright
(via nprbooks)
from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/137495509472
