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Through imagery of windows, fields, rivers, dusk sounds, scents, and seasonal labor, the speaker turns ordinary moments into intense inward experiences. The collection contrasts pastoral beauty with harshness, social resignation, longing for escape, and the shifting power of place. Recurring settings like plazas, fountains, and grazing landscapes anchor reflections on love, time, and solitude.","A Village Life (2009)  \nto James Longenbach  \nTwilight 4  \nPastoral 5  \nTributaries 7  \nNoon 9  \nBefore The Storm 11  \nSunset 13  \nIn The Café 14  \nIn The Plaza 17  \nDawn 18  \nFirst Snow 20  \nEarthworm 21  \nAt The River 22  \nA Corridor 25  \nFatigue 26  \nBurning Leaves 27  \nWalking At Night 28  \nVia Delle Ombre 30  \nHunters 32  \nA Slip Of Paper 33  \nBats 35  \nBurning Leaves 36  \nMarch 37  \nHarvest 40  \nConfession 42  \nMarriage 44  \nPrimavera 45  \nFigs 46  \nAt The Dance 49  \nSolitude 51  \nEarthworm 52  \nOlive Trees 53  \nSunrise 55  \nA Warm Day 57  \nBurning Leaves 59  \nCrossroads 60  \nBats 61  \nAbundance 62  \nMidsummer 63  \nThreshing 65  \nA Village Life 67  \nTwilight  \nAll day he works at his cousin’s mill,  \nso when he gets home at night, he always sits at this one window, sees one time of day, twilight.  \nThere should be more time like this, to sit and dream.  \nIt’s as his cousin says:  \nLiving—living takes you away from sitting.  \nIn the window, not the world but a squared-off landscape representing the world. The seasons change,  \neach visible only a few hours a day.  \nGreen things followed by golden things followed by whiteness—abstractions from which come intense pleasures,  \nlike the figs on the table.  \nAt dusk, the sun goes down in a haze of red fire between two poplars. It goes down late in summer—sometimes it’s hard to stay awake.  \nThen everything falls away.  \nThe world for a little longer  \nis something to see, then only something to hear, crickets, cicadas.  \nOr to smell sometimes, aroma of lemon trees, of orange trees.  \nThen sleep takes this away also.  \nBut it’s easy to give things up like this, experimentally, for a matter of hours.  \nI open my fingers—  \nI let everything go.  \nVisual world, language,  \nrustling of leaves in the night, smell of high grass, of woodsmoke.  \nI let it go, then I light the candle.  \nPastoral  \nThe sun rises over the mountain.  \nSometimes there’s mist but the sun’s behind it always and the mist isn’t equal to it.  \nThe sun burns its way through, like the mind defeating stupidity.  \nWhen the mist clears, you see the meadow.  \nNo one really understands the savagery of this place,  \nthe way it kills people for no reason, just to keep in practice.  \nSo people flee—and for a while, away from here, they’re exuberant, surrounded by so many choices—  \nBut no signal from earth  \nwill ever reach the sun. Thrash against that fact, you are lost.  \nWhen they come back, they’re worse. They think they failed in the city,  \nnot that the city doesn’t make good its promises.  \nThey blame their upbringing: youth ended and they’re back, silent, like their fathers.  \nSundays, in summer, they lean against the wall of the clinic, smoking cigarettes. When they remember,  \nthey pick flowers for their girlfriends—  \nIt makes the girls happy.  \nThey think it’s pretty here, but they miss the city, the afternoons filled with shopping and talking, what you do  \nwhen you have no money…  \nTo my mind, you’re better off if you stay;  \nthat way, dreams don’t damage you.  \nAt dusk, you sit by the window. Wherever you live, you can see the fields, the river, realities on which you cannot impose yourself—  \nTo me, it’s safe. The sun rises; the mist dissipates to reveal  \nthe immense mountain. You can see the peak, how white it is, even in summer. And the sky’s so blue, punctuated with small pines  \nlike spears—  \nWhen you got tired of walking you lay down in the grass.  \nWhen you got up again, you could see for a moment where you’d been, the grass was slick there, flattened out  \ninto the shape of a body. When you looked back later, it was as though you’d never been there at all.  \nMidafternoon, midsummer. The fields go on forever, peaceful, beautiful.  \nLike butterflies with their black markings, the poppies open.  \nTributaries  \nAll the roads in the village unite at the fountain. 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