Blue Flower Arts
Alison Granucci -- Lectures Readings Illuminations
Illuminations
Don’t Allow the Lucid Moment to Dissolve
Don’t allow the lucid moment to dissolve
Let the radiant thought last in stillness
though the page is almost filled and the flame flickers
We haven’t risen yet to the level of ourselves
Knowledge grows slowly like a wisdom tooth
The stature of a man is still notched
high up on a white door
From far off, the joyful voice of a trumpet
and of a song rolled up like a cat
What passes doesn’t fall into a void
A stoker is still feeding coal into the fire
Don’t allow the lucid moment to dissolve
On a hard dry substance
you have to engrave the truth
Speaker News
The New Yorker
Read Camille Dungy's latest poem "Let Me": "Let me tell you, America, this one last thing."
The Guardian
Interview with Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo writing memoir about "never giving up."
Vulture
Review of Pádraig Ó Tuama's podcast Poetry Unbound: "Listening to the podcast is like descending into a bubble bath."
The New Yorker
Review of Daniel Borzutzky's latest: Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 does more than bear witness for posterity; it speaks of, and to, our moment.
