Unbidden
By Rae Armantrout
The ghosts swarm.
They speak as one
person. Each
loves you. Each
has left something
undone.
•
Did the palo verde
blush yellow
all at once?
Today's edges
are so sharp
they might cut
anything that moved.
•
The way a lost
word
will come back
unbidden.
You're not interested
in it now,
only
in knowing
where it's been.
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Armantrout's Versed won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry earlier this week.
It was a gorgeous 70-degree spring day in the DC area, and I got to have lunch with
I know a lot of people think FlashForward is silly and I agree that their portrayal of FBI procedure is pretty ridiculous, but the show never bores me and I really like all the characters, even the characters I don't like -- I'm so upset that, now that we know Janis and Demetri actually did it, it's also obvious that she's going to be the one to shoot him, though I'm betting he doesn't die because he's a fantastic character and John Cho demonstrated tonight that the series really needs his subtlety to balance Joseph Fiennes. I still want Mark, Olivia, and Lloyd to live in a happy menage with their children. I am at the point, though, where I am wondering if they planned out the full season in advance -- I have my doubts -- and if so whether they have any sort of plan for another season. Afterward we watched Next Gen's "Face of the Enemy," which rocked as much as I'd remembered -- why didn't they let Marina Sirtis have more storylines like that?