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by Claudia Gary (Author)
Time and Other Solvents is a collection of poetry by Claudia Gary, reflecting on her youth and her family. Gary writes with craft; in symmetric verse and rhyme schemes. Her metier is the sonnet--the most graceful of all poetic forms. Even within this constraint, she creates delightful variation--breaking the first twelve lines not only into quatrains, but also triads and clusters of four and eight lines--sometimes even doubling those first twelve lines. But she unfailingly returns to the volta, with insight and wit. There is music in these lines.
An example:
Wrong-Way DriverI. Close Call
Returning home at twilight from the store-
your baby safely strapped into her seat,
the main road not yet widened into four,
then six lanes-in your northbound path you meet
two headlights. Is he crazy? Suicidal?
You swerve onto the shoulder but, for reasons
unknown, you spin around. Your shrill recital
of "No!" explodes the day, the night, the season.
You don't know how you did it, but you land
across the road, turned in the right direction,
stopped on the southbound shoulder. What calm hand
has helped? The baby slumbers in perfection.
Arriving home alarmed, you phone your parents:
You're still alive! The day before, you weren't.
II. Adrenaline Speaks
Here on this shoulder is your place to watch
the wrong-way driver who missed killing you.
Still in his wrong-lane, slow-motion approach,
interior lights all lit, he barrels through
your consciousness again. He can't be real.
He has the spirit of a broken brick
throwing itself against a porcelain wall.
He's grabbed your life and given it a kick.
Was this enough? Is this what was required
to make you value each day as a gift,
or will you linger on, stubbornly mired
in everyday sensation till you drift
downstream leaving no more than alibi?
Here on this shoulder is your place to cry.
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by Claudia Gary (Author)
Time and Other Solvents is a collection of poetry by Claudia Gary, reflecting on her youth and her family. Gary writes with craft; in symmetric verse and rhyme schemes. Her metier is the sonnet--the most graceful of all poetic forms. Even within this constraint, she creates delightful variation--breaking the first twelve lines not only into quatrains, but also triads and clusters of four and eight lines--sometimes even doubling those first twelve lines. But she unfailingly returns to the volta, with insight and wit. There is music in these lines.
An example:
Wrong-Way DriverI. Close Call
Returning home at twilight from the store-
your baby safely strapped into her seat,
the main road not yet widened into four,
then six lanes-in your northbound path you meet
two headlights. Is he crazy? Suicidal?
You swerve onto the shoulder but, for reasons
unknown, you spin around. Your shrill recital
of "No!" explodes the day, the night, the season.
You don't know how you did it, but you land
across the road, turned in the right direction,
stopped on the southbound shoulder. What calm hand
has helped? The baby slumbers in perfection.
Arriving home alarmed, you phone your parents:
You're still alive! The day before, you weren't.
II. Adrenaline Speaks
Here on this shoulder is your place to watch
the wrong-way driver who missed killing you.
Still in his wrong-lane, slow-motion approach,
interior lights all lit, he barrels through
your consciousness again. He can't be real.
He has the spirit of a broken brick
throwing itself against a porcelain wall.
He's grabbed your life and given it a kick.
Was this enough? Is this what was required
to make you value each day as a gift,
or will you linger on, stubbornly mired
in everyday sensation till you drift
downstream leaving no more than alibi?
Here on this shoulder is your place to cry.
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