#peg duthie

[jshoulson]

Today’s Poem

Decorating a Cake While Listening to Tennis --Peg Duthie

The commentator's rabbiting on and on about how it's so easy for Roger, resentment thick as butter still in a box. Yet word from those who've done their homework is how the man loves to train—how much he relishes putting in the hours just as magicians shuffle card after card, countless to mere humans but carefully all accounted for. At hearing "luck" again, I stop until my hands relax their clutch on the cone from which a dozen more peonies are to materialize. I make it look easy to grow a garden on top of a sheet of fondant, and that's how it should appear: as natural and as meant-to-be as the spin of a ball from the sweetest spot of a racquet whisked through the air like a wand.

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Decorating a Cake While Listening to Tennis

The commentator's rabbiting on and on about how it's so easy for Roger, resentment thick as butter still in a box. Yet word from those who've done their homework is how the man loves to train––how much he relishes putting in the hours just as magicians shuffle card after card, countless to mere humans but carefully all accounted for. At hearing "luck" again, I stop until my hands relax their clutch on the cone from which a dozen more peonies are to materialize. I make it look easy to grow a garden on top of a sheet of fondant, and that's how it should appear: as natural and as meant-to-be as the spin of a ball from the sweetest spot of a racquet whisked through the air like a wand.

Peg Duthie

(Source: https://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/)

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Check out How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens contributor Peg Duthie's found poetry in Galatea Resurrects.

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Read How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens contributor Peg Duthie's "Nowhere to Go" in Moonsick Magazine.

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This poem is also in Duthie's URB book, Measured Extravagance.

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This poem is also in Duthie's URB book, Measured Extravagance.

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Peg Duthie at Poetry Storehouse

The Poetry Storehouse has five poems, including two videopoem remixes, by Peg Duthie. The first three of these poems are also in her URB book, Measured Extravagance. She was interviewed at Moving Poems Forum about the videopoems.

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During the wedding, he stepped on his godmother’s toes. Ten pairs of boots later, five countries away, he’s still besieged by blisters, rice emerging out of every seam.

"Making Rice Dance," Peg Duthie