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Plumb Lines
Elizabeth Bodien
Plumb Lines is a chapbook of poems inspired by the idea that we are connected
to the core of the earth by invisible lines similar to the plumb lines used
by carpenters and others. Many of the poems are loosely related
to themes of earth.
Sample Poem:
A Girl Dreams of Wild Surrender
She wants to uncalendar herself
let obsession capture her
in the muffled hours of morning.
Between worlds,
flushed and dreamy,
she stretches out long-limbed
on undulating sheets, languorous
after a scarlet night of love-making.
The conjurers find her there,
catch her within their spells,
summon her to a delicious sacrifice,
declaring: You girl, wild of heart,
are the one we want--
reckless daughter of love,
willing to knot your hips
around the devil himself
in such delirious madness
that cares not one whit
about what might fall
tomorrow.
About the author:
Elizabeth Bodien, Kempton, PA, lives in the Ontelaunee River watershed near Hawk Mountain and recently retired from teaching cultural anthropology and critical thinking at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem. Her poetry appears in Ruah, Lilliput Review, Bear Creek Haiku, red lights, Bogg, The Litchfield Review, The Lehigh Valley Literary Review, Fledgling Rag, bottle rockets, The Fourth River, Watershed, Solo Café, and in Across the Long Bridge: An Anthology of Award Winning Poems among others. Her recent chapbook, Plumb Lines, is in its second printing by Plan B Press.
Her next collection, Rough Terrain: Notes of an Undutiful Daughter, currently in submission, was the subject of a public radio reading and interview.
ISBN: 0977824357
ISBN-13: 9780977824359, 36 pages, $9.00
Plan B Press. March 2008 (second printing June 2008)
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