"I made you a poem packed with galaxies "
Poet Deborah Gerrish (of New Jersey) joins Janet and John and reads from her new book, Light in Light Broadcasts LIVE Wednesdays at 10 AM Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case This Episode Recorded 11/1/2023
The Gift
by Deborah Gerrish
The Gift
For Gerald Stern
by Deborah Gerrish.
The world is but canvas to our imaginations.
—Henry David Thoreau
I made you a poem packed with galaxies
out of map-green tint from the nettle tree—
swaddled in bark of birch silky scent,
twined in spirals with milk-white parchment.
I stitched in bright berries from holly
the high-pitched qui-qui of brown coqui,
wove diaphanous shells of cicadas
falling chimes of rain from La Paz,
robed it with flossy ribbons
of peony petals and phlox.
Another world of other worlds I place
on your doorstep in the evening’s haze.
Quietly. Listen past the music against
the scented page—Let it whisper.
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