ASSEMBLY
"only a flake of significance" Ted Kooser
by Carol Hamilton
I feel like fish food,
important as the carp rise up,
urgent in their hunger, yet I sit
in this throng of 12,000
or at the football game,
a point in a Seurat painting.
My red or yellow or blue
is essential to this picture.
And there are those who say
some sentient desire picks me out
from the opposite stand
where football wave passes
(two of my five senses verifies this)
noisily and my will, in only moments,
pass my way. I simply must
raise my arms,
rise up and cry out.
Carol Hamilton lives
in Midwest City, Oklahoma. Carol became the Poet Laureate of Oklahoma in
1995 and received the Oklahoma Book Award in 1998 for a children's novel,
The Dawn Seekers. Recent publications have been in New Orleans Review,
Spoon River Poetry Review, Timber Creek Review, Leapings, Potpourri, Cumberland
Poetry Review, Cape Rock, International Poetry Review, Porcupine Magazine,
River King, Mid-America Poetry Review, to name a few. Carol has new books
which include: Breaking Bread, Breaking Silence Winner of the Chiron Chapbook
Award); Gold: Greatest Hits (from Pudding House); I, People of the Llano
Good SAMARitan Press), and a children's novel, I'm Not From Neptune (not
yet released).
July - August - September
- 2002 , page
18.
Art by
Jane
Anderson
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