Muttering Thunder

Music lessons with the rake.

stars and clouds at nighttime

The poet likened gardening to an act of listening. Poets are known to do a lot with the old gardening metaphor, and she resisted this. Nothing was like a garden, not really. Not when you waited. Not when you took its music on its own terms. She called the rake a dew’s harp and her favorite instrument. The method for playing it meant finding what was already there, which is the opposite of working it into something else. 

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Inspired by the work of Alice Oswald, particularly The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for The Planet.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

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