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Domestaccato
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Series: Collected Poems, Book 2
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ISBN10: 1981408193
ISBN13: 9781981408191
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Aug 25 2019
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781981408191
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Aug 25 2019
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This second creative collaboration between Wootton and Hirst isolates a domestic staccato from the high-volume background of modern life. 39 new poems, underscored by 13 original illustrations, play on latent individuality as an often subordinate but always powerful theme in family life: How much do modern households really cohere?
What makes togetherness psychologically nourishing?
Do weakened family bonds leave us more vulnerable to ideological marketing? Deepest magics are bred on this hearth:
warmed brick and whistling kettles
story-tongued salamanders clambering up chimney walls... But the lintel of our door is laid like a yoke
across my shoulders. We bear it with us going out
and we bear it with us coming in... In the pantry, by the box of bread
someone has a flashlight hid;
close by it, on upper shelves
is tucked away - a book of tales. I can't say who (at least, not yet)
might journey to an hour's end
from the hollow space beneath the stair
when all the household's unaware...
Do weakened family bonds leave us more vulnerable to ideological marketing? Deepest magics are bred on this hearth:
warmed brick and whistling kettles
story-tongued salamanders clambering up chimney walls... But the lintel of our door is laid like a yoke
across my shoulders. We bear it with us going out
and we bear it with us coming in... In the pantry, by the box of bread
someone has a flashlight hid;
close by it, on upper shelves
is tucked away - a book of tales. I can't say who (at least, not yet)
might journey to an hour's end
from the hollow space beneath the stair
when all the household's unaware...
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