Peter Riley's Greek Passages (Shearsman, 2009), second selection

Here's the second of six prose poems from the collection that will appear here: 

Sweetly then / the whole thing / complete and / sailing away, singing: Noë noë noë . . . // Sings shouting: new, new born. // Welcome home, little turnip, welcome to the old song.

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Peter Riley's Greek Passages (Shearsman, 2009), first selection

The prose poems in Peter Riley's Greek Passages are untitled. 

There was no journey. The moment we opened our eyes we were there: / the colours across the bay / the red on the blue / Trinakrian Sea, its / turning islands, and all thought of betterment in the world / Bringing trouble. That lives here like a stone. / Bringing upright posture, anxiety, and longed-for repose. That live here like the flowers of the mountain.

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Sudden Prose Reprints: "The Knowing" by Kim Moore

The Knowing

The story goes that the light slipped past/and entered the room like a shout/he stood over me/a woodcutter entered the forest/and the trees began to warn each other/it was July or maybe June/the knowing settled at my throat/a clever raven/it never left/does not believe in trees or flying/the light slipping past/it is sometimes painful/to have a knowing at your throat/that clever raven/but better than the alternative/something small and bruised/the raven knows most things/it remembers nothing/this is really about the trees/which saw it all.

Kim Moore

The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015)

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Sudden Prose Reprints: "How Wolves Change Rivers" by Kim Moore

How Wolves Change Rivers

By singing to the moon, when the beavers move in, by the growing of trees, when the soil resists the rain, when the sky rubs its belly on the leaves, by singing to the wind, by killing the deer, by moving them on from the valleys, by the birds coming back to the trees, by singing to the water, with the return of the fish, with the great ambition of beavers, with the return of bears moving across the land like dry ships, by an abundance of berries, by the bear reaching and pulling down branches, by the green coming back, by the green coming back, by the steadiness of soil, by the deer leaving the valley and the gorges, by the aspen growing, by the cottonwood growing, by the willow growing, by the songbirds singing to the trees, by the beavers coming back to love the trees, by the absence of coyotes and the abundance of rabbits, by the bald eagle and the raven who arrive to minister to the dead, by the glove of a weasel and the burn of the fox, by the gathering of pools, the holding together of the river bank by the trees, by the river finding its spine once again. 

Kim Moore

The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015)

You can purchase The Art of Falling directly from the publisher here. Join Seren's free book club first, and get 20% off.