If I were asked what the most company themes in poetry are, I’d likely answer with two words: love and nature. Poets used to write a lot about love. But love as a poetry theme has suffered a serious blow in the popularity ratings in the last couple of generations. But nature? Poets have likely been speaking and writing about nature since the literary art was invented. Poets are still writing about nature. These days, writing about nature contains far fewer pitfalls than writing about love.
Then I read Fixed Hours: Poems by Kortney Garrison. Many, perhaps most, of the poems use nature. She doesn’t celebrate nature for the sake of nature. Instead, she uses nature as a metaphor, and not for one particular thing, but for many things. And she uses nature in a deliberative, thoughtful, almost prayerful way.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
Walking into Mass in Ordinary Time – poem by Megan Willome.
Cords – poem by Franco Amati at Garbage Notes.
I Could Ask for One More Trip – poem by Peg Edera at Every Day Poems.
“On My First Daughter,” poem by Ben Jonson – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
The Delta Dawn is Always Different – poem by Vershal Hogan at Faith on View.
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