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Tremors
Cammy Thomas
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Tremors
Cammy Thomas
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Thomas's short, musical poems make stops in the terrains of childhood, difficult and somewhat violent; middle life, with parents breaking down and children moving away into their own lives;and later life when memory falters but passion does not.
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Topic
LiteraturaSubtopic
PoesíaIII.
Three White Horses
I forgot where we were
meeting tonight—
actually, I forgot
we were meeting at all
until you called.
I forgot your mother
had died. Or I knew
someone’s mother had.
Had you told me her story?
Was she the one
whose older sister
was a suicide?
Did she beat you,
or am I thinking
of someone else?
Coming to your house again,
I feel I’ve never been here.
How could I misplace
that bright green wall,
this windy road, the field
with three white horses?
Ladder
six rungs above the ground
night in heavy rain eager
to pull a clot of leaves
from a blocked downspout
sopped blinded
on my sixty-eighth birthday
in my old nightgown
slick aluminum ladder
climbing to the downspout
midair in the drench
my feet slipped off—
I went flying
caught myself gasp
slammed flat against
the flexing rungs
gutter cascading
spout still blocked
backed down
took the shining ladder
back to the garage
Dream of Two Dark Dresses
two dark dresses
are all that hang
in my closet
I don’t want to wear
either of them
one is woven with
a scene of desolation
everything broken
no one has tools
the ones in charge are liars
the fabric sags
its blacks slack
and wet as oil
the other dress is fear
dark without a color
you can’t move much
when you wear it
death seems so close
skirts like a cloud
of strangers’ exhalations
wake up wake up
pick something else
Tremors
—for Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Provincetown Harbor is on the other side of the houses
past the tall linden on Pearl Street
kshhhh kshh of vibrating leaves
next to a purple house
a small girl with a pinwheel is crying
when the wind comes the boats all face right
which way is east
sometimes I don’t care whether things matter
to anyone but me
the pink roses don’t care either
they grow for someone else’s pleasure
but they don’t know it
the girl’s mother is so mad
stop running in the street
she grabs her roughly—too roughly
weedy oyster-shell driveway
partial view of the unreachable
bay—dark pink hollyhocks—tremor in my hand makes writing hard
hhhhhhh in the leaves
the father untangles the girl
from her red-faced mother
leads her down the street still carrying her pinwheel
a pile of clamshells in the driveway
I’m drowning
the mother has vanished
we can never walk back the spent
peonies keep their green but their faces
are spikes now
Except For
I keep thinking about
my estranged other brother—
his fruit-choked garden,
rock shoulders, clear eyes—
even when he whispered
I’d better watch my back—
about how, except for my fear,
I would love to see him again.
Off the Job
just wanted to say
I don’t boss anymore
keeping kids safe
is so yesterday
no more birds
forbidden to fly
or fences containing
whatever goodbye
my stop-that voice
is out of gas
done crushing
done buckling up
now I’ll
be the wild
blame my bad behavior
on the lion’s breath
hot gr...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- I.
- II.
- III.
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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APA 6 Citation
Thomas, C. (2021). Tremors ([edition unavailable]). Four Way Books. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3253491/tremors-pdf (Original work published 2021)
Chicago Citation
Thomas, Cammy. (2021) 2021. Tremors. [Edition unavailable]. Four Way Books. https://www.perlego.com/book/3253491/tremors-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Thomas, C. (2021) Tremors. [edition unavailable]. Four Way Books. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3253491/tremors-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Thomas, Cammy. Tremors. [edition unavailable]. Four Way Books, 2021. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.