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November 18, 2012 03:00 PM
PAUL HUNTER
What better way to enter Thanksgiving week than by sharing an afternoon with Paul Hunter as he reads from his latest collection, Stubble Field ($14.95 Silverfish Review Press), the fourth volume in his series that draws on the lives lived in small farming communities. A Seattle poet, he has also spent his days as a teacher, performer, playwright, musician, instrument-maker, artist, editor, publisher, grassroots arts activist, worker on the land, and shade-tree mechanic. For the past 18 years he has produced fine letterpress books under the imprint of Wood Works.
"Past the Point of Turn and Push"
Her basket of doorknobs
all porcelain or tarnished brass
kept in the woodshed where
hens would never find by accident
hanging up there on a nail
brood on the whole damn pile
where on the way to feed
and gather in she’ll duck
slip one in her apron pocket
for the hen too troubled
today by her endless thefts
unable to rest easy so upset
by the hand stealing warm eggs
out from under her clutch
that at last this substitute
might be offered the poor dear
a tranquilizer to hatch
something eternal to polish
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