{"id":2201,"date":"2013-11-13T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2013-11-11T22:23:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T06:23:38","slug":"linda-russo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=2201","title":{"rendered":"Linda Russo"},"content":{"rendered":"

from<\/em> The Enhanced Immediacy of the Everyday [American Poem in Parts]<\/p>\n

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daffodils exploding brightly in a sea of green \u2013<\/p>\n

I am busy amassing wealth managing depth bothered by money and income suck in the vivid morning air \u2013 registering the heat wavering off the red car
\nparked neatly on the street<\/p>\n

in my house in my country everything is rabbits is trees
\nhow I can I possibly convey the feeling of owning these things<\/p>\n

I am an excellent cook, I am the bright riches now, a salty sweetness awash in my mouth I am speechless, bursting with approval, share this with me and your dividend<\/p>\n

one day we will all relax in the pink we have planned for and trusted<\/p>\n

odd how the air is pocked with grievances
\nwhile buds push forth from woody thrones<\/p>\n

little motions creating the cicada effect
\nI can\u2019t help but feel it can you?<\/em><\/p>\n

sun, this stretch of grass at this hour
\nor where you are, wherever, touching the ground in some way
\nplanted somewhere that backhoe that stalled
\nbut didn\u2019t, the five yellowjackets revisiting the bench
\nand my own illusions of readiness<\/p>\n

the slender pear tree somewhat still or slightly astir in the breeze sun tea, flipflops,
\nit can\u2019t be helped, we can’t help it, nor would we want to, what do we want, a
\ncheering small crowd and the occasional ting of a metal bat<\/p>\n

look at the tomato plants we planted
\nthe wire fence your words and works
\nthe weedy weeks dirt worked into knees<\/p>\n

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Linda Russo<\/a>\u00a0is the author of Mirth<\/em><\/a> (Chax Press<\/a>) and The Enhanced Immediacy of the Everyday <\/em>(forthcoming 2014, Chax Press). picturing everything closer visible, <\/em>a chapbook-length excerpt of a walk-in poem, is due out shortly from Projective Industries<\/a>. She is a recipient of fellowships at the Centrum Center for the Arts and the Millay Colony, and has published writing on contemporary poetry, including a hybrid review essay of Anne Waldman\u2019s Iovis Trilogy<\/em><\/a>, the preface to Joanne Kyger’s About Now: Collected Poems<\/em> (National Poetry Foundation), and, more recently, an essay was included in the edited collection Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry <\/em>(University of Iowa Press). She lives in the Columbia River Watershed and teaches at Washington State University<\/a> in Pullman.<\/p>\n

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