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Accused of Wisdom

Linda Allardt

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CONTENTS

From Silence Learned

There Was A Road

"Farm Pond"

Because This Morning

Something Sudden

Bell Tone

Accused of Wisdom

Bent

Where We Get To

Trace

The Visitation

The Poet Gives a Reading

Why the Voices?

Sounding

Migration

Alarm

Tribe

Her Stopping That Way

Post-Storm Mid-February

Yesterday's Hawks

The Sensible Father

A Name

A Prayer for Second Childhood

It Wasn't the Wind

add night to anything

In April

The Same Green

Pre-Dawn

Dutch Hollow Creek Runs Through It

Listen

November, Dawn

That Bird

Happiness

At Leaf-Fall

From the book:

ACCUSED OF WISDOM

Accused of wisdom, my words

shift like light reflecting off moving water,

light drifting across the ceiling

of my room. Like trout in shadow water

downstream from the rock. What's wisdom?

Most of the time what I can see holds still

like children playing statues. Blink

and they're gone, they're in the wind.

All falling things catch the eye

just in time to disappear.

Things I cannot prove are there surround me.

But once a leaf pulled loose from the branch

and I was looking. Caught the dipping flight

of a bird I couldn't name

and it seemed like news. What's wisdom

but watching?

But then

the underside of watching:

root-tips foraging in stony soil

for any encounter. The harrowing up of the midden.

The spark in the cloud, the forked track

I know I lack the sight for,

half-life measured in milliseconds, but true

for as long as it holds still.

Linda Allardt grew up in Southern Tier New York State where many of her poems are set. There's a farm in her family now, a creek with a waterfall, and woods. An editor and writing teacher for many years, she has published three books of poems, including the most recent, "River Effect" (State Street Press, 1998).

Accused of Wisdom is a 48 page hand-sewn paperback with flat spine - $10.00.

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To order through mail send total price plus $1.25 Shipping and Handling ($1.75 in Canada; $3.25 other countries) for each address sent to.

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FootHills Publishing

PO Box 68

Kanona, NY 14856

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