Crossing Over: Poems
Priscilla Long would take a bridge anywhere to reach her lost sister, and these poems are replete with bridges literal and metaphoric. In her quest and resolve, these words resonate from 'Kaddish for Susanne': 'All praise to all that is.'—Carole Simmons Oles, author of A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems
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Crossing Over: Poems
Priscilla Long would take a bridge anywhere to reach her lost sister, and these poems are replete with bridges literal and metaphoric. In her quest and resolve, these words resonate from 'Kaddish for Susanne': 'All praise to all that is.'—Carole Simmons Oles, author of A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems
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Crossing Over: Poems

Crossing Over: Poems

by Priscilla Long
Crossing Over: Poems

Crossing Over: Poems

by Priscilla Long

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Priscilla Long would take a bridge anywhere to reach her lost sister, and these poems are replete with bridges literal and metaphoric. In her quest and resolve, these words resonate from 'Kaddish for Susanne': 'All praise to all that is.'—Carole Simmons Oles, author of A Selected History of Her Heart: Poems

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826323965
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 07/15/2015
Series: Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
Pages: 80
Product dimensions: 8.70(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Priscilla Long is a writer of poetry, creative nonfiction, science, fiction, and history. She is the author of several books, including Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? and Crossing Over: Poems (UNM Press). She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Table of Contents

1 Memory's Load

Sister Ghost 3

Queen of the Cut 4

Psalm to Stones 5

Elegy for Susanne 6

Memory's Load 7

History 8

Thief of Fire 9

My Old Flame 10

After Meditation 12

Body Poem 13

What Remains 14

2 Why the Fremont Bridge and the Aurora Bridge Don't Speak

Seasonal Affective Disorder 17

High Road Home 18

Traffic 19

We Hold These Truths 20

Why the Fremont Bridge and the Aurora Bridge Don't Speak 21

Pantoum for a Pontoon Bridge 22

Nile Valley Landslide 23

To My Country in Time of War 25

The Red Queen 26

PTSD Poem 27

Cliffs of Fall 28

Green River Blues 29

3 Susanne's Teapot

Hot Words 33

Another Poem for Irene 34

Send Word to Lorca 35

Reading the Book of the Dead 36

Susanne's Teapot 37

Visitations 38

Shadows and Dust 40

Mount Tahoma 41

Aubade 42

Kaddish for Susanne 43

4 The Gong Strikes Its Own Hour

Rhapsody 47

Love Poem 48

To Compose a Poem 49

Poet's Palette 50

The Poet Cleans Out Her Desk Drawer 51

Writer's Prophecy 52

Calder 53

Schuyler 54

Light at Aries 55

Dutch Interiors 56

What the I Ching Said 57

Beauty 58

Decomposition 59

Scavengers 61

Bridge Pose 62

God-Trails 63

Journey 64

Acknowledgments 65

Notes 67

About the Author 71

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