Second Bloom

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Anya Krugovoy Silver. Second Bloom

Second Bloom

Table of Contents

Cape May at Dusk

Exile

A Boy Stands Up During Supper

Return

Demeter Mourns the Sisters

Almond Blossoms

There Are Times

Department Meeting

To a Healthy Friend

How to Talk to a Sick Woman

Me, Us

The Wild Swan Geese

Things That Do Not Fade

Something Understood

Grape Popsicle

Al-Quddus

Poetry Belongs to the Dying

Getting Used To It

First Advent

Second Advent

Third Advent

Fourth Advent

All You Souls

Christmas Eve

My Mother Plays a Christmas Carol

Eating Baklava on New Year’s Eve

Colloquy

Lenten Crocuses

Holy Saturday, 1945

The Empty Tomb

Easter Sunday

Psalm 137 for Noah

Pedals

Fall Festival

Inauguration

Kharkov, 1933

A Walk in November

Envying the Amish

Girl Braiding Her Hair

The Saint of Inner Light

Nocturne

The Strawberry Moon

Ghost Wife

Waking Poem for Andy

Church of St. Prex

Migrations

Grackles

Sparrow

Secrets of Ferns

Blue Slippers

Table by the Window

Bedroom With Open Door

Epithalamium

Blue Hydrangeas

To the Man Who Yelled “Hey, Baby!” At Me

Prom Dresses

Woman in a Green Dress

The Tightrope Walker

How to Hula Hoop

Late Summer

A Briar

August

Acknowledgements

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Anya Krugovoy Silver

Poems are windows into worlds; windows into beauty, goodness, and truth; windows into understandings that won’t twist themselves into tidy dogmatic statements; windows into experiences. We can do more than merely peer into such windows; with a little effort we can fling open the casements, and leap over the sills into the heart of these worlds. We are also led into familiar places of hurt, confusion, and disappointment, but we arrive in the poet’s company. Poetry is a partnership between poet and reader, seeking together to gain something of value—to get at something important.

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settling in my hair like the sandy wind?

I’ve wasted so many days in half-life—

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