Big cabin / Ron Padgett

Big cabin -- The up side -- And truly -- Chickadee -- Clocked -- Thin -- People -- Sandwich -- Hope -- Harold Clough -- In the winter of 1969-70 -- Life without you -- Paul Eluard -- Lunch Jr. -- It's good -- Ticking and tocking -- Sweeping away -- Poem ("you're here; ") -- On fire -- The hook -- The porcupine -- Songs of the skeleton -- Plume -- Wristwatch -- I give up -- Completion -- Rock around the table -- The wanderer -- Almost statue -- Timex blur -- Things to do -- Down under -- Shanghai cutout -- Haiku -- Sideways guy -- Infusion -- People vs. leaves -- Inside happiness -- It's quite something -- More about whitehead -- Auditorium -- A new leaf -- Ok -- Any future -- My eye -- Long distance -- To Yu Jian -- The 19s -- Topknot and all -- A big almost -- The cloud -- The ripple effect -- Ducks -- Chinese twins -- The triumph of beavers -- The work force -- High whoosh -- The field -- A rowboat of happiness -- It's nice -- Telegram.

This is collection of poems that Ron has written over one season that he spent living in has cabin in Calais, Vermont. At the heart of the book, in the middle, physically, is a nine-page (in ms) prose piece called 'Completion,' where he's writing in a Japanese notebook with that name. It's a very thoughtful, contemplative piece, where he ponders mortality, consciousness, and time, especially as it concerns decades long relationships with friends and family. Throughout his thoughts, he sprinkles observations about the cabin, the pond he can see out the window, and surrounding nature.

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