A Poet a Day 24: Heather Strang
Day 24 brings us Oregon poet Heather Strang, with a poem entitled “Koloa Gardens.” The poem appears in her full-length collection, Anatomy of the Heart (© 2009, iUniverse).
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE POEM
Heather provides a tongue-in-cheek look at “domestic bliss” between two souls who seem to have little in common until the spirits (in this case, rum and wine) bring them together every other night.
Koloa Gardens
Domestic bliss
came easy
the television on
soup cooking on the stove
two souls
circling one another like figure
eights
you yell at the game
I read poetry
and we are complete
it only took a good glass of
Chardonnay
and a rum and Coke
before we knew it we were
tangled up
in this
apartment in the tropics
a question mark for the future
sex every other night
like clock work.
uncle same would be so
proud.
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oh, one that captures Real Life. the spontaneity of couplehood. the delight of intoxicating substances.