O Thou Small Opening, O<\/p>\n
For Macy, at seven days<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your small mouth, We cry an O of adoration, <\/p>\n Title taken from the poem \u201cO Thou Opening, O\u201d by Theodore Roethke <\/p>\n Darby Ringer\u2019s poems<\/a> have appeared in Pontoon #1, Floating Bridge<\/em> O Thou Small Opening, O For Macy, at seven days Your small mouth, a circle of light reaching for milk, opens, perfect as the well-formed O of a chorister singing, or the complete roundness of the moon. We cry … Continue reading
\na circle of light reaching for milk,
\nopens, perfect as the well-formed
\nO of a chorister singing,
\nor the complete roundness of the moon.<\/p>\n
\nand trace the shape of your ear.
\nWe skate on winters of deepening ice,
\nforgetting our own firemaking wonder.
\nWe take the blurred path, a slender line,
\nan O we share between us,
\nand like the geese flying north,
\nfollow the snow of our beginning.<\/p>\n
\nKing County Poetry and Art on Buses 2001<\/p>\n
\n Review #5, switched-ongutenberg.org,<\/a> <\/em>Poetry and Art on the Buses, 2001,
\namong others.<\/a> She has received bachelor\u2019s degrees from the University of
\nWashington in French and Landscape Architecture. She is a landscape
\ndesigner and lives in Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"