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Sitting Outside to Write Poems on the Day the Cottonwoods Let Go, Grand Marais, Minnesota
September 12, 2012
Everywhere fairy visitations
feathery motes
of unmelting snow
or their shadows
crisscrossing my page, calling
Muse, muse, muse, muse
Look around you!
What more can we do?
LouAnn Shepard Muhm (website) is a poet and teacher from northern Minnesota, whose poems have appeared in a number of literary journals. Her chapbook, Dear Immovable, was published in 2006 by Pudding House Press, and her full-length poetry collection Breaking the Glass (2008, Loonfeather Press) was a finalist for the Midwest Book Award.
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LouAnn Shepard Muhm
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Wonderful, LouAnn! Reminds me a bit of William Stafford’s “You Reading This, Be Ready” with his “when you turn around” line and attention to what is present. But he doesn’t have “unmelting snow” – lovely.
Yes. This is lovely.
LuAnn, loved this. I have had notes for years for a “cottonwood letting-go” day in Columbus, OH that I never brought to be. I think now you have, and I can let those notes go, too.