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Kyra Freeman's Second Life: Poems of Re-Emerging reads as if eye-lids open every morn, as bones begin to creak - rise. The sun remembers. Provinces adorn neighborhoods. Children hold hands. Dogs bounce tennis balls. Furniture awakens to doggy's wagging tail - "Outside! Outside!"
Magic rules, as a "second life" dances with a partner, baggage and all, back to the first of things when Time somehow started and words began to work the way they do. A meadow, by another name could be metaphor for a kitten to play with a moth that misses a flame in a daydream as one wonders if a house pet wants to be let out - to be, to see, to let something "personal" lead to syllables spoken with necessity. Self-portraits grow from one and two until the past grows thorns, shackles - until
"Kicking my ankles loose, I walked forward in a straight line towards the sun."
April rebels, "raining when it wants to."
The poet looks around in "vibrations of rebirth."
-- Shelby Stephenson was poet laureate of North Carolina, 2015-2018. His recent books: More (Redhawk Publications) and Shelby's Lady: The Hog Poems (Fernwood Press).
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