By Amy M. Clark
With poems that mix the self-scrutiny of Philip Larkin with the degree of Elizabeth Bishop, Amy M. Clark burnishes her first assortment, Stray domestic, with beautiful understatement and formal regulate. Sweeter than Larkin and extra intimate than Bishop, those poems handle the suppressed discomfort and disgrace of dwelling as a childless girl in a global of moms, the dissociation attendant on melancholy and fraught relations relationships, and the hunt for a feeling of belonging within the face of dislocation. Stray domestic cuts deeply to find the buried feelings and insights common to all anguish and compassionate humans.
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Try this. ” I didn’t. For a good long time. 25 iii. ” What could she have taken from you then? ” A girl dreamed of escape with each step of a scuffed saddle shoe. I can remember sixteen years old, the one time I skipped school, I chose to go home. Oh Mom, I wanted to meet you. Opening the door, I fell into a symphony’s deep sea, flooding the front hall and up the stairs. Awash, in your bed, I found you dreaming. 26 iv. Mt. Fuji, Japan I hadn’t seen my grandma nude, nor she me, but we didn’t comment.
There passed an unplowed exit. Christ and splintered ice. But her fleece-lined coat on the bench seat. She broke her mother’s nose, running toward her. The wonder. Blame deflected. Allowed a child’s next day. She blinked. She said aloud, It will be okay. She drove. It snowed. 34 III. This page intentionally left blank. How to Be the Lady of the House They live together in a house of their own, and all they have they share with you: the key the father closes your hand around, a place at their table the daughter sets, their pillows and their books.
What could she have taken from you then? ” A girl dreamed of escape with each step of a scuffed saddle shoe. I can remember sixteen years old, the one time I skipped school, I chose to go home. Oh Mom, I wanted to meet you. Opening the door, I fell into a symphony’s deep sea, flooding the front hall and up the stairs. Awash, in your bed, I found you dreaming. 26 iv. Mt. Fuji, Japan I hadn’t seen my grandma nude, nor she me, but we didn’t comment. A bath was easier than a tea ceremony, easier than sashimi, or a path of finely raked sand.
