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Just in! My first collaboration with Gail Goepfert, a chapbook, This Hard Business of Living, about the early days of the pandemic, has been published by Seven Kitchens Press. Several poems from the chapbook appear on my PUBLICATIONS page, (“Still Life,” “God of the Mask” and “Dread,” to name a few). To order a copy for $9.00 plus shipping, please go to this link.  ​https://sevenkitchenspress.com/summer-kitchen-series/volume-nine/patrice-boyer-claeys-gail-goepfert-this-hard-business-of-living/
First Open Window During the Pandemic
 
In the backyard bell of sound
 
          birdspeak--
    clipped    
chipped       
stac- ca- to
 
or plummy round
              as looping as childhood’s humble paths--
 
now swells in the flattened space
 
      un-racketed
 
when nature quelled the rasp
from mower and jet
 
hushed the thud
of trucks on potholed streets
 
silenced the screech and wheeze
of buses no longer un-pleating their doors
 
          like open arms.

 


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  • WHAT'S NEW
  • ABOUT PATRICE
  • BOOKS
  • BOOK REVIEWS
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • APPEARANCES
  • Recordings