Poem-A-Day: Marriage: A Daybook by Nicole Cooley

January 23, 2014 Marriage: A Daybook by Nicole Cooley   From the window the river rinses  the dark. I twist  the wedding beads around my neck. I've lost  my ring, silver and antique, bought from the night market  in the other world across  the ocean, color of dull lead,  color of the pan I scrub and burn  in the sink.    *    Catullus wrote, I hate and love, and he wasn't talking about marriage.    *    Not talking about the blacked-out  window crossed with hurricane tape,  like a movie screen, a page redacted,  your hand erasing a blackboard  with an eraser's soft compliant body.       Copyright © 2014 by Nicole Cooley. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem  "For the past year, I've been working on a series of poems about marriage. Marriage as slant, marriage looked at askew. Marriage as a translation, its language taken from the most unlikely sources I can find: Latin poets, scraps of paper from the subway, lyrics to songs that have nothing to do with love. It's been so much fun exploring metaphor this way and forcing myself out of myself, out of my writing habits." --Nicole Cooley   Most Recent Book by Cooley Breach (Louisiana State University Press, 2009)         Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.     Nicole Cooley is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Breach (Louisiana State University Press, 2009). She teaches English and creative writing at Queens College CUNY. Related Poems My Heart by Kim Addonizio Rime Riche by Monica Ferrell  Plural Happiness by David Rivard  __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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