Open Shutters by Mary Jo Salter

Author:Mary Jo Salter [Salter, Mary Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9780307539366
Google: ZZlRAQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00FUZPS0W
Barnesnoble: B00FUZPS0W
Goodreads: 18666154
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2003-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

So I go back to my book.

Mine is about the disastrous history

of navigation, before the solution

of the problem of longitude.

More often, he’s reading about science,

and I’m reading fiction.

After a while I set down the book,

and behind my lids I see floaters of planets

slide and flicker—

celestial bodies, all unlabeled,

that could never guide me if I were a sailor.

My husband’s the one

with the sense of direction.

(Yes, I’m aware

of the gender cliché—

but what can I do? It’s true.)

Amazing what he doesn’t notice—

what I’m wearing, what he’s wearing,

half the things I notice.

But he can’t believe I’d never dare

to experiment with a new route home;

that before reading this book, this week,

I’d always confused latitude and longitude.

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