Your Drum is introducing a Poet of the Week. We are living in a time where we need to hear our poets. We need to listen to the music of words to understand ourselves. It is given to the poet, the deep wisdom that springs from the unknowable to the many.
Eve Grubin is a poet.
Her first book of poems is Morning Prayer (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2005). Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Conjunctions, The New Republic, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at The New School University, and she is a fellow at the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education.
Eve has a website: The Drunken Boat where you can read her poems.
Eve has a poem in the Winter 2006 issue of a terrific online poetry magazine La Petite Zine.
You can purchase her book Morning Prayer on Amazon
After
After a loss you live
with your gasp, your gaze,
with your hungry mouth as you lift the fork.
Something Sane. Open the door.
A guest sits down at the kitchen table.
Washing evening dishes:
something simple, something sane.
Water dreams over your wrist,
your hand, a round
transparent dish.
Something Simple. Night, rusty fire escape.
Even the rain: sane.
Urgent street voices; screech
of a hinge. Simple. A clanking
bang,
somebody is closing a gate
or opening one.
Edward Hopper
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