Julie Suk Biography
Julie Suk (born Julie Madison Gaillard; 1924) is a prize-winning American poet and writer from Charlotte, North Carolina. She is the author of five volumes of poetry.
Julie Suk was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. She attended Stephens College and the University of Alabama.In 1944 she married naval officer Bill Suk. For many years she was an artist, painting landscapes in oils. It was not until the 1960s that Suk took up poetry, inspired in part by the work of French poet Saint-John Perse. She has lived in Charlotte since 1966.
Aging through August, the hydrangeas
turn from pastels to brick and bronze,
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I could make a wardrobe
with tufts of wool
caught on thistle and bracken.
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His plane was scarcely more than canvas
stretched across board.
Gunned down by a German Fokker onto no-man's land,
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The dead sift through us
without flesh, bone, hair,
or whatever else the stars concoct
for us to touch.
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which explains why we shiver
when the heedless stars swing by.
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