Kate Buckley - Elegant Simplicity

Thanks to twitter, I stumbled on Kate Buckley . The simplicity of her poem ‘Honesty’, is stunningly elegant. Also very honestly she writes how the poem came about.
See the following lines:

“I will take measure
of your soil and add what you need,
take what I
should. “

The poet says, “ With this poem, I think I was struck by the actual sweat-and-grime/give-and-take honesty of manual labor”. Who will not?

“Also I remember my grandfather working in his garden for hours—it was a necessity for him, but it was also a meditation. I admired that about him and hated that I’d gotten so far away from that”
How true !?
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yes it's a fine simple obvious poem...those take extra work. she goes on to state "DThe first half of this poem was “received.” The sweat and tears bit was in its completion and revision. I will say that I think the “reception” bit is predicated on (a) one’s being open and (b) one having done the work." My belief as well.
Thanks for commenting,agoodguy2have
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