Key Episodes from an Earthly Life (by C. D. Wright)

Griffin Prize for Excellence In Poetry, The (2001 - 0)

1As surely as there are crumbs on the lips

2of the blind I came for a reason

3I remember when the fields were no taller

4than a pencil do you remember that

5I told him I’ve got socks older than her

6but he would not listen

7Those dark Arkansas roads that is the sound

8I am after the choiring of crickets

9Around this time of year especially evening

10I love everything I sold enough eggs

11To buy a new dress I watched him drink the juice

12of our beets And render the light liquid

13I came to talk you into physical splendor

14I do not wish to speak to your machine

Publication Notes

C. D. Wright, Steal Away: Selected and New Poems (Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press, 2002). This poem is reproduced on the Griffin Prize Web Site (from a volume on the 2003 International Shortlist).

RPO poem Editors

Ian Lancashire

RPO Edition

2011