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Philip Pardi

Philip Pardi: Boy In Cedar, Robin In Grass

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

Each one studies a fabric unseen from up close: weaving of limbs and what green and such sky and voices lulled low. Each one notes the other along song-shaped lines, discovers sight-reading is the closest we get to love if by love we mean knowing when to close our eyes. Somewhere nearby my son is […]

Filed Under: Contributors 70, Issue 70, Poetry, Poetry 70 Tagged With: Contributors 70, Philip Pardi, Poetry, Poetry 70

Philip Pardi: Three Sonatinas

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

1. When it comes to this I’ve taken to folding my hands just so so just holding becomes being held see how clear it is that no word could do what no words now do and all I am is astonished at how singly we step in our steps then out. ________________ 2. We move […]

Filed Under: Contributors 72, Issue 72, Poetry, Poetry 72 Tagged With: Contributors 72, Philip Pardi, Poetry, Poetry 72

Philip Pardi: Sonata

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

From our small balcony I watch you come near, arms about a burlap sack bearing the full spectrum of fruit watch as you pause on the baker’s stoop note how he makes you laugh deep from your knees think I must learn how he does that. Early afternoon, early autumn, late in my youth I […]

Filed Under: Contributors 72, Issue 72, Poetry, Poetry 72 Tagged With: Contributors 72, Philip Pardi, Poetry, Poetry 72

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