POETRY FRIDAY- Linda Pastan

A couple of years ago, I found Linda Pastan's poem, "To a Daughter Leaving Home." I loved it, and have kind of kept an eye out for her work. Here is one I stumbled across this week.

" A New Poet"

Finding a new poet

is like finding a new wildflower

out in the woods. You don't see

its name in the flower books, and

nobody you tell believes

in its odd color or the way

its leave grow in splayed rows

down the whole length of the page…

Read the rest of the poem here.

Go here and read Marks.

And here are a couple of Pastan quotes (I think they are really excerpts) I found on the same website.

Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I."'' Linda Pastan (b. 1932), U.S. poet. "Instructions to the Reader," lines 28-33 (1982).

''I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are the same list.'' Linda Pastan (b. 1932), U.S. poet. "Lists," lines 1-4 (1982). Poetry Friday is at Julio Larios' The Drift Record.