Eelgrass by Douglas A. Martin

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 13, 2016   Eelgrass   Douglas A. Martin

I put shells there, along the lip of the road. Bivalves from last summer's dinners. dog eats a charred rock.                               I have begun practicing                             to eat                             as well                             with my left hand.                             to slow let it go.                Don't spit there,              but walk to another room,              another depositing drain                                            spider                                                      still                                          on                                          enamel periphery    water still small circle in a slippery basin.            Copyright © 2016 Douglas A. Martin. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   "I was struck by particular attentions in the work of Jennifer Wynne Reeves, a painter who also wrote and who I was fortunate enough to have the chance to hear read before she died. I still place a lot of stock in one of the earliest poetry lessons I learned—that the word stanza means room. I suppose I go in and out a lot and keep letting things in. —Douglas A. Martin   Douglas A. Martin is the author of Once You Go Back (Seven Stories Press, 2009) and In the Time of Assignments (Soft Skull Press, 2008). He teaches at Wesleyan University and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Poetry by Martin   In the Time of Assignments (Soft Skull Press, 2008)  "The Steam Engine" by Elizabeth Willis "Fragment" by Amy Lowell "Dear columbine, dear engine" by Melissa Stein Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends.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

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