Interglacial

Wisconsin Bookwatch, Jan, 2005

Interglacial

James Richardson

Ausable Press

1026 Hurricane Road, Keene, NY 12942

1931337217 $16.00 ausablepress.org

Interglacial: New And Selected Poems & Aphorisms is a 253-page compendium of writings by prize winning poet James Richardson. Spellbound: And what of the child Bad Magic/clanged shut in a bluebird,/who sat half-lit in the re-leafing arbor,/listening for his old name in the family hubbub,/who meant to cry out ... but seedflash, a hummer of wings ... /couldn't hold to his dream,/small and quick as a spark, of having been/a child once? Who couldn't see into those windows,/quick as sparks, where slowly they still played,/who meant ... but shrill, but two flights twined/outflinging ... And sometimes in the clatter/of coffee on the lawn, their voices lowering/and slowed (that he could not tell/from landslide, from preliminary thunder),/they would seem to speak of him/something...but it was years/and he meant ... but too-swift heart,/flit like forget and South like a soft downstairs,/and something sang him something flew him away ...