“Listening” by Emily R. Grosholz

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Childhood

Words in my ear, and someone still unseen
Not yet quite viable, but quietly
Astir inside my body;

Not yet quite named, and yet
I weave a birthplace for him out of words.

Part of the world persists
Distinct from what we say, but part will stay
Only if we keep talking: only speech
Can re-create the gardens of the world.

Not the rose itself,
But the School of Night assembled at its side
Arguing, praising, whom we now recall.

A rose can sow its seed
Alone, but poets need their auditors
And mothers need their language for a cradle.

My son still on his stalk
Rides between the silence of the flowers
And conversation offered by his parents,
Wise and foolish talk, to draw him out.

-Emily R. Grosholz,
Childhood
(Accents Publishing)

emily_grosholz_smEmily Grosholz grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and has taught philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University for thirty-five years, with sojourns in France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, Finland, Costa Rica, Russia, Greece, Spain and Italy. She and her husband Robert R. Edwards (medievalist, rugbyman, and soccer coach) raised four children in State College, Pennsylvania, surrounded by small farms and green hills on one side and the town and university on the other. She is an advisory editor for The Hudson Review,and this is her seventh book of poetry.

Childhood contains illustrations by Lucy Vines.

Lucy VinesLucy Vines was born in 1929 in Hartford, Connecticut. She was raised in New York City, then came to France during the McCarthy era and has lived in Paris ever since, in a milieu of writers and painters. She is married and has one child. The Morat Foundation in Freiburg, Germany, the École des Beaux-Arts in Nîmes, France, and the Maison de l’Amérique Latine in Paris have held retrospective shows devoted to her work. Her works are untitled.

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