Smallholding - Softcover

Compton, Anne

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ISBN 10: 1554554683 ISBN 13: 9781554554683

Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2019

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In her fifth collection, celebrated poet Anne Compton turns her attention to smaller objects -- the strangeness of thought that plays around common, everyday things and occasions, such as sleep and meals. Here she is a diarist of her immediate surroundings -- of a river, fog in its variations, the reliable return of plant and birdlife. The book arcs from the objects observed to the observing mind, its vagaries and slippages, recalling the persons, places, and things that make up a life.

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Onion
Weighs more than it looks: Should do, my father says, bent among
October rows. I've come the yellow corridors to be with him.

Like a star compacted by gravity - that dense.
Nebula of particles, fused and lit. Unus, its Latin name.

Best dug at first frost: Difficult, though, to be rid of the soil specks
in the outer sheath. Iron flavour in the winter sandwich.

Graded by flesh colour and as to keeping - storage or straight away.

The Vidalia, in pale—coloured skin, similar to all things fresh —
sweetest forthwith. Thick—skinned storage, a deeper flavour.

Decades gone, he's likely starlight. Or he's the data
encrypted in cells. My cells. The inside story's never lost.

Heaven from earth, according to him. Readable parchment —
in layers — had we the cipher to decode it. Circle by circle.

At the root—end, there are tear—producing compounds,
where it gripped earth. This is true of all things temporary.