The wall hanging I never noticed by Dorothea Lasky

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend July 18, 2014   The wall hanging I never noticed   Dorothea Lasky

I never noticed before How the red flowers hang from the blue branches I never noticed before the light in this room I never noticed the way the air is cool again I never noticed anything but you But you but you So that I couldn’t sleep I never noticed what was anything but you Until I noticed you And could not help it Until I noticed you I could not help it Until you made the red flowers alive again Until the blue branches The lemons you loved, but also the way you loved me, too Until all of this I never noticed you But once I did I never minded noticing I never stopped noticing Until I noticed you I never stopped noticing Until you, I never stopped            Copyright @ 2014 by Dorothea Lasky. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “I have a giant piece of Marimekko fabric of blue birds sitting on big branches full of red fruit that hangs in my kitchen window and I wrote this poem while looking at it. This poem is about that feeling you have when you just can’t get enough of someone and how this feeling of insatiability extends over the world in a state of blissful calm once you thankfully feel it. Sometimes I think the feeling itself is the addiction. This poem is a love letter.” —Dorothea Lasky   Dorothea Lasky is the author of Rome (Liveright, 2014). She teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and lives in New York City. Most Recent Book by Lasky   Rome (Liveright, 2014) “poem I wrote sitting across the table from you” by Kevin Varrone “Darling, You Are the World’s Fresh Ornament” by Laura Cronk “Midwinter Day [Excerpt]” by Bernadette Mayer Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. 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.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038