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A Carol for Carolyn It is easy to be a poet, / brim with transparent water. —Carolyn Kizer, “In the First Stanza” I dreamed of a poet who gave me a whale that shadowed clear pools through the sea-weeded shade. When beached sea-foam dried on the rocks, it would sail down currents that gathered to pool and cascade with turbulent order. She brims with transparent water, as mother and poet and daughter. The surface is broken and arching and full, impelled by the passions of nation and woman. The waves build and fall; the deep currents pull toward rocky pools cupping the salt of the human. The ocean she’s authored brims, with transparent water, for poet and mother and daughter. 17 Written for a keynote panel in honor of Carolyn Kizer at the annual convention of the Associated Writing Programs (April 2001). Originally published in Calendars (Tupelo Press, 2003). ...

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