J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 0 ![]() POTATOby Laurie Lamon | |||||||||||||
![]() (For help, see a note about the audio.) Also by Laurie Lamon: When You Tell Me (1998)
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There is one beauty it knows. The rest is blindness, earth closing around itself, surrounded by hunger. For a hundred days, a thousand, it is the same dark eye looking inward. Thinking of light. Remembering the pressure of soil. The seam of water finding its heart. And afterward, blossoms ringing through stone.
Laurie Lamon is an assistant professor of English at Whitworth College, in Spokane, Washington. Her poems have recently appeared in Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture, Southern Humanities Review, and Poetry Northwest. Copyright © 2000 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; January 2000; Potato; Volume 285, No. 1; page 72. |
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