Never by Chase Twichell

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 10, 2014   Never   Chase Twichell

The clouds’ disintegrating script spells out the word squander.   Tree shadows lie down in the field. Clipped to a grass blade’s underside,   a crisp green grasshopper weighs down the tip,   swaying between birth and death. I’ll think of him as we clink   glasses with the guests, eating olives as the sun goes down.            Copyright © 2014 by Chase Twichell. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “‘Never’ points at the awareness of a moment of lapsed consciousness, one, of course, of an endless stream. To be awake in the world is to be constantly reminded of one’s own deep sleep.” —Chase Twichell   Chase Twichell’s most recent book is Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2010). She splits her time between the Adirondacks of northern New York and Miami Beach. Most Recent Book by Twichell   Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) "The Testing-Tree" by Stanley Kunitz "The Moment" by Marie Howe "Not" by Sophie Cabot Black Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends.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