Ada Jill Schneider Archives - The Poetry Box https://thepoetrybox.com/tag/ada-jill-schneider Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:35:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://thepoetrybox.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/cropped-GoldNibOnlyBrownCircle-32x32.png Ada Jill Schneider Archives - The Poetry Box https://thepoetrybox.com/tag/ada-jill-schneider 32 32 136205081 Poem of the Day (04-09-2018) https://thepoetrybox.com/poem-of-the-day-04-09-2018 https://thepoetrybox.com/poem-of-the-day-04-09-2018#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:32:38 +0000 http://thepoetrybox.com/?p=1648 Please enjoy today's selection: "Fertilized by Mark Strand" by Ada Jill Schneider, which appears in The Poeming Pigeon: Poems from the Garden:

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]]> To celebrate National Poetry Month, The Poetry Box is sharing a Poem-of-the-Day, selected from various anthologies and individual poet collections that we have published over the years.

National Poetry Month, 2018 - Poem of the Day at The Poetry Box

Please enjoy today’s selection: “Fertilized by Mark Strand” by Ada Jill Schneider, which appears in The Poeming Pigeon: Poems from the Garden:

Fertilized by Mark Strand

  “I have been eating poetry.”

Sun sweat drips into my eyes,
sonnets bounce in the rain;
in a garden patch mulched with feelings
I have been planting poetry.

The earth is mealy, rich with fragrant
lavender, scented geraniums. I tousle each
fl ower, mot juste; prune, lop and top
till my face is red as rhubarb.

I want to spray cool water over my head
till puddles form in my yellow Jollys,
trickle into rivulets circling pale sage,
licorice tarragon, lickable, palpable

poetry I cultivate. My roots dig deep
into time, reaching Rachel’s tomb.
Lush psalms spill out of my basket
and I swear I attract hummingbirds.

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