SUMMER POETRY SPECIAL

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MARGUERITE BOUVARD

THE MICRO-WORLD

There are the corridors of air laden
with pollen, and the nectar drinking bats

and night flowers whose lives
intertwine, the miniature Gentians

that shed their blue light after the snow
has melted, and the first steps a child

takes that are its wings, its first
words opening the door of the world,

and the hand clasping the hand for decades
that pulses with love and understanding.

JUNE

The stillness of early June;
just the trilling of birds
above silent meadows, the green light
of Archangel Raphael, and the trees
silent watch with their scrolls
of leaves spelling creation,
and the clear syllables
of birds, their tones etching
the crystalline air.
A meditation on being.

Marguerite Bouvard is the author of eight poetry books, two of which have won awards.  Her poems have been widely published, and she has also written twelve non-fiction books on human rights, justice, illness and grief.  Her latest non-fiction is on her website.  She has also been featured on Democracy Now for her book The Invisible Wounds of War.

She was a professor of Political Science and a Director of Poetry Workshops at Regis College, and a writer-in-residence at the University of Maryland. She is currently a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. She has received fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women.