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The Moons of August
Danusha Lameris
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The Moons of August
Danusha Lameris
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Winner of the 2013 Autumn House Press Poetry Contest, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. This stunning debut collection explores family culture, motherhood, and memory.
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INSHAâALLAH
I donât know when it slipped into my speech
that soft word meaning, âif God wills it.â
InshaâAllah I will see you next summer.
The baby will come in spring, inshaâAllah.
InshaâAllah this year we will have enough rain.
So many plans Iâve laid have unraveled
easily as braids beneath my motherâs quick fingers.
Every language must have a word for this. A word
our grandmothers uttered under their breath
as they pinned the whites, soaked in lemon,
hung them to dry in the sun, or peeled potatoes,
dropping the discarded skins into a bowl.
Our sons will return next month, inshaâAllah.
InshaâAllah this war will end, soon. InshaâAllah
the rice will be enough to last through winter.
How lightly we learn to hold hope,
as if it were an animal that could turn around
and bite your hand. And still we carry it
the way a mother would, carefully,
from one day to the next.
WHAT TREES DREAM OF
This one thinks, let me be the slender bow
of the violin. Another, the body of the instrument,
burnished amber.
One imagines life as a narrow boat
crossing water,
a light mist of salt on the prow.
And still anotherâplaned down to planks,
then hammered into shelter
voices vibrating through the rafters.
We do not notice their pleasure,
the slight hum of the banister
beneath our palms,
the satisfaction of the desk
as we tap our pens, impatiently,
upon its weathered surface.
They have ferried us
across rough seas
to lands that smelled of cinnamon,
carried arrowheads to pierce our enemies,
housed our senators,
who pace the creaky floors, debating.
We have boiled their pulp,
pressed it into thin,
white sheets of paper.
And when we die,
they meet us in the blackened soil
and take us back
carry us
up the length of their bodies
into the trembling leaves.
NAMES
What happens to the ones that fall out of favor:
the Dorises and Archibalds,
the Theodores and Eunices?
They all had their day,
once roamed the earth in multitudes
alongside Gerties and Wyattsâ
at least one in every classroom.
Names written in neat block print,
scratched into tree bark,
engraved on heart-shaped lockets,
filling the morning paper
with weddings and engagements.
How could they have known
that one-by-one the Constances
and Clydes would disappear,
replaced by Jennifers, Jacobs,
Ashleys and Aidens.
That few would ever dance again,
corsages pinned to their breasts
or hear their names on the radio
whispered in dedication,
or uttered in darkness
by a breathless voice,
or even shouted out in angerâ
âSeymour!ââ
as they grabbed the keys and stormed out the door.
Each name fading quietly from daily life
as though it had never existed,
except for the letters etched into stone,
warmed by the sun
and at night, lit by a crescent moon.
EVE, AFTER
Did she know
there was more to life
than lions licking the furred
ears of lambs,
fruit trees dropping
their fat bounty,
the years droning on
without argument?
Too much quiet
is never a good sign.
Isnât there always
something itching...
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Before
- one
- two
- three
- four
- Acknowledgments
Normes de citation pour The Moons of August
APA 6 Citation
Lameris, D. (2020). The Moons of August ([edition unavailable]). Autumn House Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2799239/the-moons-of-august-pdf (Original work published 2020)
Chicago Citation
Lameris, Danusha. (2020) 2020. The Moons of August. [Edition unavailable]. Autumn House Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/2799239/the-moons-of-august-pdf.
Harvard Citation
Lameris, D. (2020) The Moons of August. [edition unavailable]. Autumn House Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2799239/the-moons-of-august-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).
MLA 7 Citation
Lameris, Danusha. The Moons of August. [edition unavailable]. Autumn House Press, 2020. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.