The Book of Endings
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The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning with absence - the death of the author's mother, the absence of the beloved, the absence of an accountable god, cicadas, the dead stars arriving, the dead moon aglow in the night sky.
Leslie Harrison
LESLIE HARRISON is currently a production manager for a weekly newspaper. She has spent more than a decade as a photojournalist whose prize-winning work has appeared for the Associated Press and in People and Sports Illustrated, among many other publications. Educated at Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at Irvine, she currently lives in Sandisfield, Massachusetts.
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The Book of Endings - Leslie Harrison
McHugh
[I keep throwing words at the problem
because words]
To list the day full of ravens and crows is to attempt
meaning as if words could mend themselves the way
the window eventually cures itself of frost I don’t know
how to make anything how to make anything better
the mourning doves on the lines suspect nothing about
the way machines keep throwing voices how objects
contain how the wires conduct silence and spark
to say vessels contain is to attempt again to make
this storm of trees and sky into prophesy is to advocate
for an undivided world unfold the dead hawk’s wing
and ask it about flight ask the killdeer how it came
to equate love with broken love with panic safety
with leading with leading the dangerous on
dear Cassandra the page is funnel pitcher or cloud
into which I keep pouring the trees the listing birds
the way they keep refusing to mean the way I want
to mean anything other than this other than this much
silence the way the page both contains refuses the stain
Left Panel
[December]
That was the year that ice begot ravens singly in pairs and crows
a gathering flock fed well of the damaged trees their desperate fruit
come to trouble what little sleep come to comfort the stoneheavy days
come to this house locked in ice the stacked snow sealed over so cold
the owls died off from the branches such delicate flowers falling