Cole Swensen
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And Golden Apple Tree, 1903, also lost
in the 1945 fire at Schloss Immendorf, so also now
known only in black and white, and thus the burden of apples
that must have weighed entire skies
have become just as many blind spots,
small exits, erasures out of which we also slip, wondering
about the green beneath, also erased, which seems
nonetheless particularly rich. That light and thus the houses
build vertically in planes
an economy of climbing
things green after green
Malcesine on Lake Garda (1913)
(also lost in the fire) in the trees
is lost in the upper framing
making the small town seem to go on rising
softly breaking other frames, unseen, tithing.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
November 2018
celebrating twenty-five years of above/ground press
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
cover image: Gustav Klimt and Emilie Flöge on the Jetty in Litzlberg, 1906
cover image credit: Collection Villa Paulick, courtesy Klimt Foundation, Vienna
Cole Swensen (coleswensen.com) is the author of 17 books of poetry, most recently On Walking On (2017), and a volume of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise (2011). Her work has won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series and has been a finalist twice for the LA Times Book Award and once for the National Book Award. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she’s also the translator of over 20 volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French, and has won a PEN USA Award in Literary Translation. She edits the small press La Presse (lapressepoetry.com).
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