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Antioch Review contributor, poet, Cathryn Essinger, featured on Poetry Daily

21 Wednesday May 2014

Posted by Grace Curtis in POEM WEDNESDAY, Poetry

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Cathy EssingerIn the Spring, 2014 issue of The Antioch Review, we published a poem by Cathryn Essinger titled, “For the Birds.” We are grateful and not surprised that the poem was shared on Poetry Daily recently. You can read the poem and hear Essinger read it on this blog post.

 

 

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Cathryn Essinger is the author of three volumes of poetry—A Desk in the Elephant House, My Dog Does Not Read Plato, and What I Know About Innocence.  She is a member of The Greenville Poets and a retired professor of English.  She is currently teaching poetry workshops and learning Japanese.  Konichiwa!  Her work has appeared most recently in The Southern Review, and The Alaska Quarterly.

 

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POEM WEDNESDAY – For the Birds by Cathryn Essinger

23 Wednesday Apr 2014

Posted by Grace Curtis in POEM WEDNESDAY, Poetry, Uncategorized

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From the Current Issue of The Antioch Review

https://antiochreviewblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/cathy-essinger-poem.mp3

FOR THE BIRDS

by Cathryn Essinger

At the farmer’s market the grocer has decided
to give me a Bible lesson as I fumble for my wallet
to purchase a squash.

This one is called the Crown of Thorns, he says,
to remind us of the cross, and here are ten spokes,
one for each of the commandments.

I give the grocer his money, but my sympathy is
with the squash, whose nature has been hijacked
by religion.  It fills my palm

with its hefty promise and I suspect it of knowing
the true art of resurrection—seeds packed
into a sinewy cave,

where the pulp is so fragrant that time holds still.
When I split the ovum with a knife I reveal
a space so private

that I am embarrassed to have looked, flesh as pale
as the new moon, and an aroma so seminal that
it stains all thought.

With the sharp edge of a spoon, I scrape out the seeds,
and then holding the soft entrails in one hand
throw it all to the birds.

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Cathy EssingerCathryn Essinger is the author of three volumes of poetry—A Desk in the Elephant House, My Dog Does Not Read Plato, and What I Know About Innocence.  She is a member of The Greenville Poets and a retired professor of English.  She is currently teaching poetry workshops and learning Japanese.  Konichiwa!  Her work has appeared most recently in The Southern Review, and The Alaska Quarterly.

 

 

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