with three poems by Barry Spacks
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Monday Morning Poem
The music of conversation:
exchanged risks of breath:
to make twoness oneness
takes a twoness.
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A Little Sermon on Marriage
Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Blake
practiced nakedness in their garden,
made love there in innocent training
for Paradise.
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At the wedding at Cana,
the world-respected Jewish poet and rabbi
turned water to wine, his first miracle,
declaring by this metaphor
that marriage turns the waters of life to wine.
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From Little Star #2
Also in our Warm Your February series:
“La Chatte,” by C. K. Williams
“Merit Upon the Riverbank,” by Dennis Saleh
“Phi,” by Melissa Green
Barry Spacks has published various novels, stories, and poetry recordings and collections while teaching literature and writing at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology and the University of California at Santa Barbara. His most recent book of poems, Food for the Journey, was published by Cherry Grove in August, 2008. Hear Barry Spacks read here.