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Yarn, Jeffrey Childs

Unpublished poems

Yarn, Jeffrey Childs

Nuno Amado

 

Yarn

 

As if in moving even meekly

Through the world with a mind sharpened

By nature or experience there were

Moments of catching or being caught

In which, turn as you might, or merely

In standing still (for the world itself

Is motion) you felt the tug of something 

In you unraveling, or in the world,

For in your unraveling the difference

Begins to fray, and saw the line spun

From your reeling play itself out into

The space in which a shadow dreams

Of sunbeams dancing upon your skin.


Jeffrey Childs is a professor at the Open University of Portugal and a researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies at the University of Lisbon. Among other topics he has written on the war poetry of Randall Jarrell (“It was not dying: everybody dies, / It was not dying: we had died before”) and on the work of the contemporary poet Mark Strand (“In a field / I am the absence / of field”).