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Cart Before the Horse: An Anthology of Poems

Cart Before the Horse: An Anthology of Poems

Masterman, Patti

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ISBN13: 9798181765153
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Is death long, you ask; is it very long?
Death is only the one second, between forgetting and awakening.

In this anthology of sixty-two poems, Patti Masterman puts the cart squarely before the horse-asking life's last questions first. God, death, love, and the strange luck of being alive are all taken up in a voice that is by turns reverent, heartbroken, and slyly funny.

Here the universe is not out there but in here: hidden in the spaces between atoms, between heartbeats, between all the things we leave unsaid. A heart undergoes cryosurgery. A spider meets its end beneath a Bodhisattva's shoe. A mother dies, and the night grows long before the dead begin to speak.

Arranged in seven movements-from the cosmos within us, through love's many weathers, to grief, wit, and song-Cart Before the Horse is a book for readers who want their poetry plainspoken but never small: poems to read at a bedside, at a graveside, or alone at the kitchen table when the house has gone quiet.

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