Window Left Open

"The poppies are wild, they are only beautiful and tall"
"so long as you do not cut them, "
"they are like the feral cat who purrs and rubs against your leg"
"but will scratch you if you touch back."
"Love is letting the world be half-tamed."
--from "Poppies"In this lush, intricately [...]
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"The poppies are wild, they are only beautiful and tall"
"so long as you do not cut them, "
"they are like the feral cat who purrs and rubs against your leg"
"but will scratch you if you touch back."
"Love is letting the world be half-tamed."
--from "Poppies"In this lush, intricately crafted collection, Jennifer Grotz explores how we can become strange to ourselves through escape, isolation, desire--and by leaving the window open. These poems are full of the sensory pleasures of the natural world and a slowed-down concept of time as Grotz records the wonders of travel, a sojourn at a French monastery, and the translation of thoughts into words, words into another language, language into this remarkable poetry. "Window Left Open" is a beautiful and resounding book, one that traces simultaneously the intimacy and the vastness of the world.