From the daily archives:
Psalm is a new book of poems by College of Charleston professor Carol Ann Davis. Her debut collection is a resilient album of bloom and loss. Thirty-two poems chronicle a father’s death and a son’s birth. The work is erudite and tender, rich with music, art, and voyage.
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A Poem by Benjamin Pryor
We have never been what we have wanted to gain,
scooping our family debris, in the way
an apartment garden proudly decomposes.
Garbage fetters the flow, does not care to impose
spent smoke bombs, ruddy phlox, baby seashells,
melted crayons. Love is not tossed-out pails
but we inflect the lowly harrumph of mucking up,
billows of trash bags calm us, plastic cups.
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