{"id":811,"date":"2012-08-26T21:30:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T05:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2012-08-26T21:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T05:37:12","slug":"nancy-pagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pagh"},"content":{"rendered":"

I Like To Be Still
\nAfter Pablo Neruda<\/em><\/p>\n

I like to be still: it is as though there never was
\nsuch a thing as waking, and crows beyond the window
\nare distant as the beaches with private hotels.
\nNo one strips the bedding. No one sweeps the sand.<\/p>\n

Everyone chooses not to touch some things.
\nAnd the soul of these things goes on dreaming
\nand seems far away like our own red birth.
\nI am like the word annunciation.<\/p>\n

I like to be still in this room in the morning.
\nA sleeping cat pushes his back to my spine.
\nThere is nothing to look forward to
\nso much as fondling his head and the sound he will make.<\/p>\n

You misunderstand my silence. All things are my soul
\nand the quietest things are me most of all. This is true:
\nI am not entertaining in the way that you want.
\nMy breasts never warranted an exclamation mark.<\/p>\n

I like to be still: it is as though there never was
\npossibility then possibility taken away beyond windows
\nand stars and the high afternoon so remote like you
\nand everyone choosing to touch other things.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“I Like to Be Still” is reprinted from After<\/em> (Floating Bridge Press, 2008)<\/p>\n

Nancy Pagh<\/a> has authored two award-winning collections of poetry, No Sweeter Fat<\/em> <\/a>(Autumn House Press book award) and After<\/em> <\/a>(Floating Bridge Press chapbook competition), and one book of nonfiction (At Home Afloat<\/a>)<\/em>. Her work appears in numerous publications, including Prairie Schooner, Crab Creek Review, <\/a>Poetry Northwest,<\/a> Rattle, <\/a>The Bellingham Review,<\/a><\/em>and O Magazine.<\/em> She was born in the island community of Anacortes, Washington, and currently teaches at Western Washington University in Bellingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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