Pamela Hart created this poetry postcard with one of her own photos. We admire the way she nested the poem into the picture for maximum visibility — always a challenge for longer poems on postcards. For the benefit of the visually impaired, though, we reprint the text of the poem below:
Equinox
Then it was over yesterday, the burnished end
of summer, where it had been all alongthough I hardly noticed, distracted by the pull
of the ordinary which was so beautiful I spentan hour or so thinking about how I’d looked
at patterned light on a wall because I believedin splitting open the mundane. Possibly summer’s end
— the stale humidity, the poured out storiesflooding the house — was there as snow melt
forgotten like an old scar.But I’d looked away, amused by desire’s low sound
its usual gesture of blue.
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9 comments in “equinox”
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:57 am
“burnished end of summer” — love that; it goes so well with the photo. like how the image is sideways on the postcard as well…
December 2nd, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Thanks Amy — actually the photo was taken lying directly under that vault of yellow, not sideways…
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
Stunning photo. I love the perspective it gives me of the tree, the world. And the poem sets a meditative, contemplative mood – it gets inside the mind of an artist.
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:45 pm
What a exquisite photograph, Pamela! I love the surprise of the last line of the poem -
“its usual gesture of blue.”
December 5th, 2008 at 4:48 am
Thank you Michelle!
December 5th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
distracted by the pull/
of the ordinary…
… I believed
in splitting open the mundane.
Just how I feel today… and I love how the lines of the poem become branches in this context. Thank you!
December 5th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
the poured out stories flooding the house…
that’s beautiful!
I just don’t understand “desire’s low sound it’s usual gesture of blue”. I love the poem, even in the mystery of that line. May your pen continue it’s healing flow.
December 7th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
and ‘amused’by it too! It is most occluded but I love it!
December 10th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Pam, your poem and photograph are a striking combination. Beautiful. And I love that patterned light on the wall, too!
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