Tagged: “For All We Know”
Poem of the Week: “Peace” by Ciaran Carson
Back then, you wouldn’t know from one day to the next what might
happen next. Everything was, as it were, provisional…
Poem of the Week:”Pas de Deux”
A poem for Valentine’s Day– Pas de Deux It all began in Take Two, what with us looking at clothes. You’d brushed against me as I stepped aside from the mirror to let you size yourself up against a blue pencil skirt, pinching its waistband to your waist with your arms akimbo. I caught you…
Continue ReadingPoem of the Week: “Proposal” by Ciaran Carson
Proposal It happened over an apple. We were in a market, sunshine and August showers flickering through the glazed roof over a barrel of apples, green with a blush of red, the dew still seeming to glisten on them. You picked one up. Try it and see, Miss, said the vendor. You nodded, and bit…
Continue ReadingRemarks on Carson’s “The Fetch,” from For All We Know, Part Two
The Fetch I woke. You were lying beside me in the double bed, prone, your long dark hair fanned out over the downy pillow. I’d been dreaming we stood on a beach an ocean away watching the waves purl into their troughs and tumble over. Knit one, purl two, you said. Something in your voice…
Continue ReadingReading Carson’s “The Fetch,” from For All We Know, Part One
The Fetch To see one’s own doppelganger is an omen of death. The doppelganger casts no reflection in a mirror. Shelley saw himself swimming towards himself before he drowned. Lincoln met his fetch at the stage door before he was shot. It puts me in mind of prisoners interrogated, of one telling his story so…
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