Sow: Poems by Tanya Rucosky Noakes

By Tanya Rucosky Noakes

Gentle, thoughtful poetry from an American expatriate in rural Australia.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gegensatz Press
• Release date: Apr 3, 2011
• ISBN: 9781933237473

Tanya Rucosky Noakes

Tanya Rucosky Noakes was born in the mountains east of Pittsburgh. She has degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in English Literature and Information Science, and a further degree in Environmental Education from Slippery Rock University. She has worked as an archivist, editor, organic farmer, teacher, foreign aid worker, and park ranger, and has wandered around Europe, the American West, and spent several years in Thailand and Taiwan. Currently she has wandered over to the other side of the planet where she owns an organic farm and runs a community environmental organization in rural Australia.

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Sow

Poems by

Tanya Rucosky Noakes

Published by Gegensatz Press at Smashwords

ISBN 978-1-933237-47-3

Copyright © 2009 by Tanya Rucosky Noakes

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With thanks, as always, to DS.

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You know, when I thought of this title it was because sow is a homophone:

so ... where do we go from here ...

sew ... stitch something together ...

and the planting idea ...

and then I found myself saddled with ... a pig!

English is terrible and wonderful.

This is why I asked Jek to take the pictures that he did ... to enforce the plant thing and minimize all pigs.

So, even though I like pigs, I'm rather anti-pig on this one. However, what you bring to this enlarges and extends anything good I have written into the rest of the world, and if you in your wisdom and experience want to bring pigs ... I'll trust you on that.

CONTENTS

Part I: Deep Creeks

A Pantheist Worships the Sky

The Long Way

Considering Laetoli from My Small Pond

Braid

Olduvai

Skinny Dipping with Tiamat

Bear's Funeral

Wa Wadna Fecht for Charlie

Butchering Season

Terra Incognita

Deep Creek

Soot, Thorn, and Stone

The Moon in a Mackerel Sky

Pine

Part II: Shoveling Snow

Farewell to El Dorado

Travellers All

My Heart is Narrow as Wolf Creek

In Seth's House

A Hint

April

Fall

Not for Love nor Parrots

Fall from a Bridge in Madison County

A House Without Lights

In the Slap of a Screen Door

November

Peaceful Easy

Luke in Bright