Chamber Music by Jan Zwicky

Author:Jan Zwicky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Prairie

And then I walked out into that hayfield west of Brandon,

evening, late July, a long day in the car from Nipissing

and long days in the car before that; the sun

was red, the field a glow of pink, and the smell of the grasses

and alfalfa and the sleek dark scent of water nearby …

I remember — now — chasing something underneath the farmhouse table as a child

and seeing the big hasp on the underside that locked the two main leaves: it seemed

rough and enormous, out of keeping with the polished surfaces

it held together, almost medieval, I was startled and a bit afraid; and later

as an adult, fumbling for it, blind, at the limits of my reach,

how finally it would let go with a sharp jerk and the leaves

would sigh apart: but it was there,

in that hayfield, that I felt some rusty weight in my chest stick

then give, a slow opening to sky —

it was that hasp, I know it now,

though at the time I did not recognize I was remembering,

nor, had you told me, would I then have known why.

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