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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