Hot Springs by Davis McCombs

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 7, 2016   Hot Springs   Davis McCombs

after Robert Francis's "Silent Poem"   rain storm   rock pore   flow path   earth crust thrust fault   drip slope   trough dam   blue ooze   tile floor   stained glass   sitz bath   rust stain sun porch   deck chair   sky light   gas lamp   foot bridge   leaf twitch   dirt trail   red oak white tail   hoof prints   moss stump   wood thrush   chert flake   clay shard   pit mine   whet stone knife blade   green gorge   creek mud   blue tent   fire ring   wood smoke   sign post   steep road store front   plate glass   stone arch   tile roof street light   pump house   brick walk   steam grate hot wisp   guard rail   foot soak   spa town            Copyright © 2016 Davis McCombs. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   "The form of 'Hot Springs' was inspired by Robert Francis's wonderful 'Silent Poem,' a poem I've loved and taught for years. When I sat down to write about Hot Springs National Park, I kept thinking about the two stressed syllables of the name 'Hot Springs' and it eventually led me to wonder if I could write a poem composed entirely of spondees and still manage to convey a sense, albeit fractured, of one of my favorite places in Arkansas." —Davis McCombs   Davis McCombs is the author of lore (University of Utah Press, 2016). He directs the Program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas and lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Poetry by McCombs   lore (University of Utah Press, 2016)  "High Tide at Race Point" by Charles Bernstein "When Ecstasy is Inconvenient" by Lorine Niedecker "Variation on a Theme" by W. S. Merwin Imagine Our Parks with Poems   This poem was commissioned by the Academy of American Poets and funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Imagine Your Parks grant. Imagine Your Parks grants celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service and the 50th anniversary of the NEA by supporting projects that use the arts to engage people with the memorable places and landscapes of the National Park System in 2016. Read more poems about our National Parks. 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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