By Naomi Shihab Nye
In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye keeps her dialog with usual humans whose lives develop into, via her empathetic use of poetic language, awesome. Nye writes of neighborhood existence in her inner-city Texas local, approximately rural faculties and concrete groups she's visited during this nation, in addition to the day-by-day rituals of Jews and Palestinians who dwell within the war-torn center East.
The Day
I neglected the day
on which it used to be said
others will not be have
certain guns, yet we could.
Not simply may well, yet should,
and do.
I neglected that day.
Was I sleeping?
I could have been digging
in the yard,
doing whatever small and slow
as usual.
Or might be I wasn't born yet.
What approximately all of the different people
who aren't born?
Who will inform them?
Balancing direct language with a suggestive "aslantness," Nye probes the delicate connection among language and which means. She by no means shies from the problem of attempting to identify the mysterious good judgment of formative years or converse fact to energy within the face of the horrors of conflict. She knows our lives are marked by means of tragedy, inequity, and false impression, and that our greatest likelihood of surviving our losses and shortcomings is to keep up a heightened understanding of the sacred in all things.
Naomi Shihab Nye, poet, editor, anthologist, is a recipient of writing fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations. Nye's paintings has been featured on PBS poetry specials together with NOW with invoice Moyers, The Language of lifestyles with invoice Moyers, and the us of Poetry. She has traveled in a foreign country as a traveling author on 3 Arts the United States excursions subsidized by means of the U.S. details employer. In 2001 she acquired a presidential appointment to the nationwide Council of the nationwide Endowment for the arts. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
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You ought to be ashamed, I said, to look so antique. ) I can't help it, she said, pulling a long face, It's them pllls I took, to bring it off, she said. ) 160 The chemist SaId it would be all right, but I've never been the same.
Mer such knowledge, what forgiveness? Thmk now HIstory has many cunnmg passages, contnved corndors And ISsues, deceives WIth wlnspermg amblhons, GUldes us by vanities. Think now She gives when our attenhon is distracted And what she gIves, glVes with such supple confusions That the giVillg famishes the craving. Gives too late What's not believed In, or is still believed, In memory only, reconsIdered passion. Gives too soon Into weak hands, what's thought can be dispensed wIth Till the refusal propagates a fear.
Lights, hghts, She entertains Sir Ferdinand Klein. Who clipped the lion's wings And Hea'd his rump and pared his claws? Thought Burbank, meditating on Time's rUlllS, and the seven laws. 33 Sweeney Erect And the trees abollt me, Let them be dry and leafless, let the 1'Ocks Groan wIth contmual surges, and behmd me Make all a desolation Look, look, we1l6hesl Prunt me a cavernous waste shore Cast III the unstllled Cyclades, Pamt me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelpll1g seas. Dlsplay me Aeolus above ReVleWll1g the insurgent gales WhlCh tangle Al'ladne's harr And swell WIth haste the pel jured salls.