Wednesday, January 17, 2018

POEM: "Midnight Messenger" (Susan Chesney)

Artist/Poet Chuka Susan Chesney edited by Dhr. Seven and Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

MIDNIGHT MESSENGER
Cover "Meum Doleo" by Christie Shinn
my window cloaked by
midnight figure
   she gazes 
I'm only nine
this wizard woman
savors sweet
hung from shingle and raingutter
   inverted teacup of stained night
   this evening bird
knows the way I turn and toss
   steps on tips of blanket wave
ignites my breath with
riddles woven by her stance
   I know
   thoughts confide
   restless smoke
   candle extinguished

BOOK: People Like Cats
People Like Cats is a collaborative book with art by Chuka Susan Chesney and poetry by Laura Madeline Wiseman published by Red Dashboard. 

Featuring Chesney's lush and varied art and Wiseman's prose poetry, it contains all things of cat fancy as it meditates on the human itch for feline companionship.

At least since the time of Christopher Smart and Thomas Gray through that of T. S. Eliot, poets have focused on their affection for cats

...People Like Cats continues this strong tradition with beauty, variety, and sensitivity. The book's title poem embodies the clever ambiguity which characterizes Wiseman's playful and engaging games with language...her witty verbal play on common language about cats does not undermine the serious theme of a growing girl's encounters with the complexities of life.

She gains an early introduction to responsibilities such as cleaning and shopping, to the grim realities of hardship and delight, of sex and love, of frustration and satisfaction, of disappointment and... More

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