Susan Parr, “Untitled”
No skill to sorting rice.
The ways are multiform—
even the urge to decide on one pulls the grain.So here’s advice:
pour wherever the scoop leads your arm,
pronouncing the name of someone-syllable thing, like “sky,”
making a tiny screen
for the free-falling.
Pacific Shooter, the debut collection from Susan Parr, was the 2009 winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series prize. Poems from this collection include “Formal Manners” and “This Is Not a Lemon” (published in DIAGRAM), “Even Football” (reprinted in The Stranger) and “Poem in the Shape of a Poem” and “Brandoid Roundteen” (discussed at Incendiary Lit).
7 April 2011 | poetry |
Our Endless and Proper Work is my new book with Belt Publishing about starting (and sticking to) a productive writing practice. 
