Unbidden

by Rae Armantrout

2 April 09 http://www.poets.org/poemADay.phphttp://www.hillsidebelize.net/discover/i/bluecreek.jpg

UnbiddenThe ghosts swarm.

They speak as one

person. Each

loves you. Each

has left something

undone.

Did the palo verde

blush yellow

all at once?

Today's edges

are so sharphttp://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20678

Continued……

they might cut

anything that moved.

The way a lost

word

will come back

unbidden.

You're not interested

in it now,

only

in knowing

where it's been.

Unbidden

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Rae Armantrout

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1134

Rae Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California, in 1947, and grew up in San Diego. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied with Denise Levertov, and a master's degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University.

She has published ten books of poetry, including: Next Life, (Wesleyan, 2007), selected by the New York Times as one of the most notable books of 2007; Up to Speed (2004), a finalist for the PEN USA Award in Poetry; Veil: New and Selected Poems (2001), also a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award; The Pretext (2001); Made To Seem (1995); and The Invention of Hunger (1979).

National Poetry Month is a month-long, national celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets. The concept is to widen the attention of individuals and the media� to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our complex poetic heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic range and concern.

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