A fourteen-line poem on Adoration by Julie Carr

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend November 3, 2014   A fourteen-line poem on Adoration   Julie Carr

1.   It does not take much           2.   Half an hour here, half an hour there           3.   It’s not a “presence” I adore           4.   The erotically swollen moon           5.   Let me go, friends, companions         6.   The soldier watches his kid in a play         7.   He seems nothing less or more than “foreigner”         8.   Grass. Dirt.         9.   The bottle broke and all the women gathered shards         10. The effect was of inflation         11.  There was only one alive moment in the day         12.  Either I loved myself or I loved you         13.  Just like a mother to say that         14. “Do you become very much?” she wrote              Copyright © 2014 by Julie Carr. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “I’ve been writing these fourteen-line poems as a way to play with the sonnet and also to push enjambment a bit further down the road. The numbers are meant to be heard, as a way to propel the poem forward. This one (and some others) borrows words from Jean-Luc Nancy’s Adoration: The Deconstruction of Christianity II, a book I happen to adore.” —Julie Carr   Julie Carr is the author of RAG (Omnidawn Publishing, 2014). She teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and lives in Denver. Most Recent Book by Carr   RAG (Omnidawn Pubilshing, 2014) "The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poem" by Amy Uyematsu "Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!]" by Frank O'Hara "Gapped Sonnet" by Suzanne Gardinier Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends.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