Now I Get It by Fanny Howe

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend August 27, 2014   Now I Get It   Fanny Howe

Remember judge and you shall Be judged For laughing in school, for being Stupid and always wrong. Penance like the scent of the sheep Is slow O’ weary, its coat A kind of fluff that goes up In filament theory. Your own life ahead follows you Like a scientist posing as a shepherd.            Copyright © 2014 by Fanny Howe. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “This is a brief meditation on the way we believe we have escaped our negative acts, until later, when we realize much of our life has been a kind of penance for those acts. Science believes it has the answers to such personal mysteries, but I wonder.” –Fanny Howe   Fanny Howe is the author of Second Childhood (Graywolf Press, 2014).  She will be teaching at Brown University in the fall of 2014. Most Recent Book by Howe   Second Childhood (Graywolf Press, 2014) "My Childhood Home I See Again" by Abraham Lincoln "The Answer" by Sara Teasdale "Days of Me" by Stewart Dischell Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends.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