In June the Labyrinth

Cynthia Hogue

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(“believing belief ”)

I was not thinking of her I was trying not to think of her.
I left a cold place and traveled to the warm it was raining
the hard rain down that fell into a rata-tat-tat on the wings
as I deplaned. I love the rain, I said, but it was not true.
Rain’s gloomy and I was glad. Elle was still alive and I
believed belief could heal her. I had a dream in which
someone died and when I woke I thought, Someone has died.
I hardly knew death was so sudden. Before Elle saw the
doctor, she had something and then she had something else.
After she saw the doctor it was diagnosed as something
worse. Elle oh Elle, I said when word reached me. And,
Oh no. Who doesn’t say something that isn’t anything?

(“Elle in hospice”)

Saturday we spoke of stopping hydration.
Elle asked us to just shoot me or make me
well. We were her agents of change,
we strangers from afar. Monday
the morphine drip. Or maybe Sunday.
The on-call hospice nurse had the worst
tobacco and whiskey voice and the voice
upset Elle who roused at last to say, No more
love. But the nurse in the middle of her
story continued so bent on telling the whole
she forgot the point of being there at all.
We heard her though we no longer listened,
having turned to Elle whose
breathing had begun to quicken.

Sujets

• Themes
• Subjects
• Poetry
• Places

Informations

• Publié par: Red Hen Press
• Date de parution: 13 avril 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781597095785
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

In June the Labyrinth
Copyright 2017 by Cynthia Hogue
All Rights Reserved
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner.
Book layout by Sarah Wong
Hand lettering by Cassidy Trier
Names: Hogue, Cynthia, author.
Title: In June the labyrinth / Cynthia Hogue.
Description: Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2017]
Identifiers: LCCN 2016048404 ISBN 9781597090377 (pbk. : alk. paper) | eISBN 9781597095785
Classification: LCC PS3558.O34754 A6 2017 DDC 811/.54-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016048404
The National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Max Factor Family Foundation, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation, the Pasadena Arts Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Audrey Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Amazon Literary Partnership, and the Sherwood Foundation partially support Red Hen Press.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to the editors of the following journals, anthologies, and special issues for publishing individual poems (sometimes with different titles and in earlier versions): Bosque : ( a journey ), ( believing belief ), ( still her ), ( the field ); Hinchas de Poesia : ( I could still call Elle ), ( the green way ), ( thinking of you ) ; Hotel Amerika : ( the labyrinth of honestly ) under the title the lake of honestly ; Plume : ( the wayfarer ), ( to label something something ) in a composite poem including ( a spire ), ( the keep ) and ( well being ), ( to walk the labyrinth is amazing ); TAB : ( L is for love ) under the title Then Became ; Third Coast : ( the boulder ), ( verge ) in earlier, untitled versions; Tupelo Quarterly : ( Elle in hospice ), ( in time ), ( my particular ); Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature : ( alone in love ), ( curtains of darkness ), ( the labyrinth of forgiveness ); Z calo Magazine : ( the labyrinth s experience ).
( Elle s good ) was included in In Like Company: The Salt River Review Porch Anthology , edited by James Cervantes (MadHat Press, 2015); ( still herself ) was included in the fiftieth anniversary edition of Puerto del Sol (2015), edited by Carmen Gim nez Smith; ( the unwritten volume ) was published under the title The Unwritten Volume in Prairie Schooner in the special section Women and the Global Imagination, guest-edited by Alicia Ostriker (Winter 2014), and included in Best American Poetry (2016), edited by Edward Hirsch.
Deep thanks to Wendy Barker, Martha Collins, and Alicia Ostriker for your generous words and abiding support; to the Helene M. Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico for a quiet space in which to begin this book before I knew it was one; to the English Department and the Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University for the leave time that enabled me to advance this project; to my CW colleagues for so generously covering for me-especially Norman Dubie, Sally Ball, and Alberto R os; to the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry for the resources to undertake travel necessary to the writing of these poems; and to the MFA Program at Cornell University for the invitation to be Distinguished Visiting Writer in the Spring of 2014, during which time I had the peace of mind conducive to going deeply into and completing the project in draft. My thanks to everyone in English at Cornell for their warm welcome, in particular Alice Fulton, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Ishion Hutchinson, and Valzhyna Mort. To Martha Collins, Alan Michael Parker, Lois Roma-Deeley, and Jeannine Savard, all of whom beneficently read the whole manuscript and gave me judicious feedback: you gave me the gift of your expertise and friendship, and you gave me courage. To Kate Gale and Mark Cull of Red Hen Press: Ever-thanks for standing by me, and for the beautiful books you make. To the friends and family (especially my adored husband, Sylvain Gallais) who journeyed with me to walk labyrinths, although they wished many times to be doing something else, ever-love .
In memory of L. W., A. O., M. M., and L. E. H.,
holy strong ones
CONTENTS
I
( a journey )
( a troth )
( the unwritten volume )
( L is for love )
( the labyrinth of honestly )
( safely )
( a mazing )
( my pilgrimage )
( believing belief )
( my particular )
( and to see )
( in time )
II
( dehors et dedans )
( to label something something )
( well being )
( the keep )
( the thinking veiling )
( high plains drifter )
( I could still call Elle )
( about face )
( Elle tells )
( a spire )
( to be-frend )
( to walk the labyrinth is amazing )
III
( peace, love )
( alone in love )
( like to a sphere )
( thinking of you )
( verge )
( the crux )
( symbolic )
( cunning )
( Elle in hospice )
( the labyrinth s experience )
( still herself )
( the green way )
IV
( the bitter )
( the boulder )
( the field )
( the rose )
( Elle muses )
( Elle s good )
( the wayfarer )
( curtains of darkness )
( Elle at sea )
( the lost labyrinth )
( the labyrinth of forgiveness )
( still her )
Notes