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The Vultures are Circling

The Vultures are Circling

Knutson, Sharon Waller

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 939522472X
ISBN13: 9789395224727
Publisher: Cyberwit Net
Published: Jan 12 2023
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In The Vultures are Circling, Sharon Waller Knutson invites the reader into her world with brave and buoyant poems revealing the intertwined value of family and nature. Don't Tell the Kids, He Warns Me humorously portrays that caring family can be a blessing but also a curse. This clan, like herd animals, with one text from their father, skid[s] to a stop and turn[s] around. Her poems about her late family members are especially moving. In May 22, 2022, she remove[s]/ all of his pictures from the wall/ and set[s] them in a circle/ like the family sat at the ceremony to honor her son Ben on the first anniversary of his sudden death. She searches for the picture of him looking so alive/ . . . / smiling as he stares at [her]. Naomi and Wynona is also poignant as she uses her memories of the Judds to mourn her parents who were fans of these singers. Even as the title poem reveals how traumatic Knutson's recent fall was, it still shows her as a survivor crawling/ on . . . hands and knees, / towards safety, the vultures are more than a rueful metaphor; they are part of the Arizona desert she and her husband inhabit. In other poems, like the charming Mr. Crow and Tis the Season, we see how close to nature the poet and her husband live. Indeed, in Ultimate Feast, a buck, / doe and fawn are guests at their sunset picnic, drinking from our waterfalls/pond. Similarly, the reader becomes a guest to the world of these wise poems.

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