Chet Raymo, “Salt And Nerves”
by Chet Raymo
Let me introduce you to another poet, my colleague here at the college, Anna Ross. In the particular poem I want to share she is walking with a companion and comes upon the bleached skeleton of an elk, its upturned ribcage “picked white as crocus tips in the long grass.” An animal skeleton, in a place where such an encounter is not unexpected. But this skeleton, “skull nosing/ the green suggestion of water/ in the run-off ditch” brings the walkers up short. They see their house in the distance, and the weather coming east, “skinning the gray jaw-lines of the ridges.” The poet’s language holds the elk in a context of earth and sky: “skinning,” “jaw-lines.”
The question goes unanswered, but the title of the poem tells us all we need to know: “Evidence.” Those elk bones, the weather, the gray jaw-lines of the ridges, the grouse and her chicks – mute evidences of the only thing that matters, the angel, the revelation, the sudden gift of grace that comes unexpectedly – I quote Plath again – “thus hallowing an interval/ Otherwise inconsequent/ By bestowing largesse, honor/ One might say love.”
Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2018/08/chet-raymo-salt-and-nerves.html
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