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Sally Zakariya, Poetry Editor
Richer Resources Publications
Charan Sue Wollard
(LivermoreLit)
Kevin Taylor
(Poet-ch'i)
Sherry Weaver Smith
(SherrysKnowledgeQuest)
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The Missing Couplet
It’s exciting to have a piece accepted for publication, so I was delighted when Boston Literary Magazine published my poem “What I Know about Chemistry” in its Winter 2013-14 issue. But alas, the final couplet didn’t make it into print. Not their fault! Turns out it didn’t make it into my submission either. So, to correct the little chemical spill, here‘s the whole poem:
What I Know about Chemistry
Sally Zakariya
Grandfather was a chemist but the science
gene died with him in the Maine woods.
Hiker, archer, fisherman, consummate
outdoorsman, but still always a chemist
pursuing the central science. I see
him white coated with his test tubes
exploring the essential secrets
of the universe, matter’s mysteries
how atoms meet and dance and bond
in shapely mathematical precision.
I can’t fathom such formidable beauty
can’t grasp the fundamental knowledge
he held so easily. Did he see molecules
in dreams, devise arcane reactions as he
walked from home to lab, from lab to home?
Samuel Stockton Voorhees—I look in vain
for some suggestion of his sibilant name
in the periodic table. But never mind.
When he was young, I’m told, he saved a man
from drowning in the Johnstown Flood
no doubt analyzing the murky mixture
of flood water and debris as he dove in.
Lesson learned: when you cut and paste, double check!
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Kudos for Haiku Book
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In the well-earned praise department, Sherry Weaver Smith's Land Shapes: Selected Haiku Poems has won an honorable mention in the prestigious R.H. Blyth Award for books of haiku in English. The award is presented annually by the World Haiku Club, based in Oxford, England, and was judged by esteemed Japanese poet and artist Susumu Takiguchi. Smith's haiku poems "are like the first scene of a drama, development of a story or change in the narrative," says the World Haiku Club's review of Land Shapes, "and how desperately we want to know the drama, story or narrative themselves!" The review is online at World Haiku Review. |
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