The good news just keeps flowing. Greg Rappleye will be reading at Indiana University in South Bend on Thursday, February 28 at 7:00 P.M. He has a new book out, Figured Dark, which I just cracked open last night. I'm enjoying it. Here's a small passage from "Not that Happiness":
Who is not captive to some small happiness?
To love a field you can never own--the pink mist
of knapweed, the blue of chicory.
Or the heron that settles in the neighbor's pond
and croaks through the last of your dreams.
You startle awake, patting your head, glad
that you are not a minnow, darting
among the muddy reeds. How it comes around,
this happiness, like a landlord sniffing out the rent.
Not what you ordered--penny whistles, celophane hats,
those hand-crank noisemakers--but the happiness
that finds you, scrawls a receipt, says,
"You paid for this," whatever happiness is.
2 comments:
I love that excerpt.
Yes, it's good. You'll have to come out to the reading.
And it was good to see you, too!
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