"The Life of Weeds" // Along the house/ jupiter's-beards nod like drunks/ on their lean stalks,/ whispering to themselves,/ mañana, mañana./ In the morning their leaves flush/ and stretch out flat in the sun,/ each cell a delicate gem./ The claret blossoms/ shake a thousand tiny bells,/ and bees come with the folded hands of priests,/ chanting hymns.
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The lost body of childhood
poems
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by David Dayton
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A collection of 31 poems by a young man who has supplanted the dogmas of his fundamentalist Christian parents with a somber but good-humored faith in the consolation to be found in poetry. The ordering of the poems traces a coming-of-age arc, from a farewell to family and childhood, through a search for love and meaning, to finding himself at peace, content to share quiet reflections shaped by empathy, wit, and sensuous appreciation.
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The lost body of childhood: poems
1979, Copper Beech Press, distributed by the New York State Small Press Association
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Publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. The cover illustration is reproduced from a photograph by Jerry N. Uelsmann, and is used with his permission.
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A short poem representative of the meditative lyrical voice that emerges in the third and final section of the book.
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