May 13, 2007 NEW YORK, NY
LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR
LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR
will read with
Donna Mitchell and Martha Rhodes
at 6:00 p.m.
Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (Greenwich Village)
Information: www.corneliastreetcafe.com
About Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of two previous collections: The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (1997) and Small Gods of Grief (2001) which won the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize. She grew up in Belgium, where she worked for Belgian radio and television. Fluent in four languages, she moved to the U.S. in 1986. She lives in New York City and is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, and of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College. http://www.ausablepress.org/Elegy
The past lies in the swath I left
The past lies in the swath I left
crossing a summer meadow in Belgium.
I longed to see my old house one
I longed to see my old house one
last time, and crossed the field at dawn.
Some grasses lifted their heads
Some grasses lifted their heads
after my passage — wild chamomile and chervil —
but the touch-me-not lay crushed.
but the touch-me-not lay crushed.
I found nothing there I wanted to bring back
and no one was left to see me turn away.
and no one was left to see me turn away.
