I’ve been neglecting this blog lately, but as school winds down and I can (fingers crossed) devote more time to writing, I decided to dust things off a bit and offer you this most perfect poem by Lisa Jarnot.
“This Most Perfect Hill”
by Lisa Jarnot
On this most perfect hill
with these most perfect dogs
are these most perfect people
and this most perfect fog
In this most perfect fog
that is the middle of the sea
inside the perfect middle of
the things inside that swing
In this most perfect rhyme
that takes up what it sees,
with perfect shelter from the
rain as perfect as can be,
In this most perfect day
at the apex of the sun
runs this most perfect
frog song that is roiling
from the mud
Read the rest of the poem here.
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As I sit outside on a most perfect summer day and listen to the most perfect songs of birds and feel the warmth of my most perfect dog on my lap, I know that my words are most imperfect. Thanks for this poem today. Hope you’ll be finished soon and will have time to relax.
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Oh, I wondered where this was leading us. Perfect ending. I. like Margaret, hope you have some perfect time for yourself soon!
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beautiful….most perfect, even. I love the sound clip of it. Wishing you a quick and good end of the school year.
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I love how tongue-in-cheek the poem becomes, just by its pairing of perfect and mud. What delicious skill that makes me smile, even as the repetition hits me between the eyes.
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I love the repetition of all things perfect in this poem. I hope you enjoy a most perfect day!
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Can’t make it through this one without smiling! Thanks for sharing in your perfectly generous way, Catherine – Happy Summering!
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I like the windingness of this perfect poem, thanks for sharing it Catherine–I’d like to read more of Lisa Jarnot’s poetry too!
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