Poem-A-Day: Forms of Range and Loathing by Ruth Ellen Kocher

October 23, 2013 Forms of Range and Loathing by Ruth Ellen Kocher     typical of an arid country among hundreds of other flora you find half a province of avalanches      parts are desert      I might say light defeated by a dark thing that strips mountain and bullet       no        the mountains have forgotten airborne you would never say howl never say mountain     or region or enemy you say men's mouths are the woods' black holes      I'm thinking The guy on TV didn't seem upset about killing his wife If he'd done so but he didn't he says      nothing about him if not after an interview tuft bodies of red wings scatter the lawns      did you hear birds out of sky some dead wind   he didn't seem upset and so may as well have killed his wife a jury says     If you could hear me now I'm not sure how important it might seem In another language     Hope is not too much or that a random crime might mean We share something           Copyright © 2013 by Ruth Ellen Kocher. Used with permission of the author.   About This Poem "'Forms of Range and Loathing' is part of Lovely Gun, a series of poems that enact an in absentia dialogue with a soldier, away. More specifically, the poem enacts conversations thwarted by the absence and removal of war partly as a way to honor the presence of war alongside the typical articles of any day safely removed from the site of war. The poem is a fracture, a fissure of lyric departure."  --Ruth Ellen Kocher Most Recent Book by Kocher domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press, 2013)          Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.   Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of several books of poems, including domina Un/blued  (Tupelo Press, 2013). She teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University of Colorado-Boulder.   Related Poems Spoken From the Hedgerows by Jorie Graham Mosul by David Hernandez April 27, 1937 by Timothy Steele __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     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.

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