AUNT MABEL TALKS ABOUT ADULTERY<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t know why you have to go
\nand ask me such a question.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t even like the word. It\u2019s one of those
\nbrutal sounds gets inside you churning
\nup feelings, even ones you didn\u2019t know
\nyou owned. Like a plow tearing through
\nplayed-out land gone to seed.<\/p>\n
And it makes no matter whether
\nits kin, or a dear friend
\nthe pain of it all spreads quick
\nas prairie fire threatening everything
\nin its way. And that\u2019s all
\nI\u2019m going to say.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
“Aunt Mabel Talks About Adultery” is reprinted from Clover.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sally Green\u2014poet, printer, book designer, calligrapher\u2014is copublisher AUNT MABEL TALKS ABOUT ADULTERY Don\u2019t know why you have to go and ask me such a question. I don\u2019t even like the word. It\u2019s one of those brutal sounds gets inside you churning up feelings, even ones you … Continue reading
\nof the award-winning Brooding Heron Press,<\/a> which publishes fine,
\nletterpressed editions of poetry (Gary Snyder, Denise Levertov, Donald Hall,
\nHayden Carruth, John Haines, etc.). In 2008, Pacific Lutheran University
\nawarded her a Stanley W. Lindberg Editor\u2019s Award for excellence. Her own
\npoems have appeared in The Poets Guide to the Birds<\/em><\/a> (an anthology edited by
\nJudith Kitchen and Ted Kooser, and published by Anhinga Press), The Ladies<\/em>
\nPrinting Bee, Clover,<\/a> The Planet Earth Poetry Anthology<\/a><\/em> (Leaf Press) as well as
\nother publications. She was a featured poet at the annual Lower Columbia
\nCollege literary festival, the Planet Earth poetry reading series at The Moka
\nHouse in Victoria, and the Northwind Reading Series<\/a> in Port Townsend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"