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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
METAPHYSICS AT LAKE OSWEGO, by JANE MILLER Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn like never before
Last Line: You neither let go nor withhold.
Subject(s): Dawn; Lakes; Oregon; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds
First Line: Dawn like never before
Last Line: You neither let go nor withhold.
Subject(s): Dawn; Lakes; Oregon; Sunrise; Pools; Ponds
Dawn like never before.
Rosy bands across bare trees.
For the beginner doubt and possibility both
cradle in the pink sky,
like the beginner empty and ready,
as if an egg under each arm
and without breaking them.
Ada rows out on the lake, oar-plash and bird-call.
So much in love with the music
she just moves, that's all. Great hips!
From the shore you're familiar
with her look -- you must change her
focus to see your human face.
Cradled in a boat her body
confirms destiny, already out this March
starving the deer, demanding
you dissemble and bow down
and to whom. Ada in a boat, Ada
on the shore, in the waning days of your twenties,
Ada bathing. Your whole life is overcoming
the past which is fixed
to repeat. With a kind of innocence
rustling the underbrush
you'd crawl from the spot,
red ant toward the real trees,
were she not always undressing
there before a swim. Dawn
like never before charges up
in you, alizarin, perfect and wanton
with something to express, not figure out.
You are here blindly
observing gestures again. Only when they ricochet
do the lights riddle your body:
dignity, hope.
You neither let go nor withhold.
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