Poem-A-Day: Past Inclemency & Present Warmth by Eryn Green

March 28, 2014 Past Inclemency & Present Warmth by Eryn Green     It was   time that was   the tenderness--eden, as it is   in need of   and tolerating no history--thus no tracks   of conventionalism in our shared patched boot   and oversoul pasts--just new snow, crossed through   like uncommon winter birds do--making paths invisible   but to few   --   But too few   continue--I've started to   think differently of nests   needs and webs. It's inevitable   I guess--& yet resplendent   isn't it? Always   a shocking testament   to what? Home? I don't know   how paradise found its parade   but I love it--patterns in steam   spinning off the Tivoli    brewing tower yesterday--eye beams           into steel                         greylit grey       glisten      glistening     Copyright © 2014 by Eryn Green. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem  "This poem takes its title from the beginning of Hawthorne's 'Blithedale Romance,' after a snowstorm and before a drowning. I was compelled to think about the apt description offered of both writing and living, insofar as both take place in a kind of constant present-tense stretching out from our cold and frozen shared cosmological origins, toward the vastness of futurity and we-don't-know-what. This liminal indeterminacy has implications both terrifying and exhilarating, and this poem revels in the latter briefly, the opportunity to maybe forget history for a moment, watch the wind blow off towers in the mean time, maybe have a drink, which, at least in certain moments, can seem like quite the warm proposal indeed."   --Eryn Green Most Recent Book by Green     Eruv (Yale University Press, 2014)            Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends.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.     Eryn Green is the author of Eruv (Yale University Press, 2014), winner of the 2013 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. He lives in Denver, Colorado.  Related Poems Series by Geoffrey G. O'Brien Primitive State [excerpt] by Anselm Berrigan  Difficult Body by Mark Wunderlich  __________________________ 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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