Margaret Gibson

Margaret Gibson Poems

In fields of bush clover and hay-scent grass
the autumn moon takes refuge
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Unrolling
the coiled scroll
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The burning that must
have been coming from me—
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During the banquet
what poem can I say for him
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Savoring each summer moment
lush and brief
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What little I know, I hold closer,
more dear, especially now
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Margaret Gibson Biography

Margaret Gibson (born 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet. Margaret Gibson grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and was educated at Hollins College, and the University of Virginia. She went to Yaddo in 1975. Gibson has been a Visiting Professor at The University of Connecticut since 1993. Gibson is married to the writer David McCain, and lives in Preston, Connecticut. The Vigil, A Poem in Four Voices, a Finalist for the National Book Award in 1993 Memories of the Future, The Daybooks of Tina Modotti, co-winner of the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America in 1986-87 Long Walks in the Afternoon, the 1982 Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets National Endowment for the Arts Grant Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellowship Grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts "Earth Elegy," the title poem of New and Selected Poems, won The James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry "Archaeology" was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2001)

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Autumn Grasses

In fields of bush clover and hay-scent grass
the autumn moon takes refuge
The cricket's song is gold
Zeshin's loneliness taught him this
Who is coming?
What will come to pass, and pass?
Neither bruise nor sweetness nor cool air
not-knowing
knows the way
And the moon?
Who among us does not wander, and flare
and bow to the ground?
Who does not savor, and stand open
if only in secret
taking heart in the ripening of the moon?

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