18 October 2005 | Vol. 5, No. 3
The Week in Renovation: Tuesday
First, say:
Today will not end
as if it never began.
Thunderheads are not
gathering. Weary,
dolorous girls approach
the doors in pairs.
They turn
from the calendar
but keep time. I set
my watch by them.
I went to yesterday's
festival, but no one
was there. I thought
I heard music,
but it was only
the pudding stones
sliding down the hill.
Something ransacked
the yard overnight.
The anger, maybe
at finding everything
so dry. There is
nothing to do
against that.
About the author:
Carolyn Guinzio is the author of Quarry (Fall 2008, Free Verse Editions, Parlor Press), and West Pullman (Bordighera, 2005), winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Cannibal, Colorado Review, New American Writing, Typo, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Bard College and lives in Fayetteville, AR.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Carolyn Guinzio at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 5, No. 3, where "The Week in Renovation: Tuesday" ran on October 18, 2005. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
