{"id":2666,"date":"2010-12-07T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2010-12-07T20:56:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T07:56:38","slug":"tuesday-poem-blue-by-barbara-mccartney-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/12\/07\/tuesday-poem-blue-by-barbara-mccartney-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: “Blue” by Barbara McCartney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blue<\/strong><\/h4>\n

on Capri the gondola
\nrides far above the sea
\nhangs in green between blue and blue<\/p>\n

below at the azure grotto
\nthe boatman grasps the chain
\nwe ride the surge
\ninto glowing pale blue
\nour small flotilla circles
\ncrosses the pool
\n(to bathe in this!)<\/p>\n

and in Mainz
\nthere’s an overflow of blue as
\nChagal’s windows
\nlight St Stephen’s
\na triptych of swirling leaves
\ntumble of angels
\nJacob Moses Elias
\nthe holy family
\nthe Christ
\nthe ancient ark adrift on blue<\/p>\n

and generations of high water marks
\non the walls of villages
\nalong the Rhein and Main<\/p>\n

and the grey Danube<\/p>\n

acqua alta – ma quanto alta?<\/p>\n

(c) Barbara McCartney<\/p>\n

Published in Flap<\/em>: The Chook Book 2<\/em>, (The Hen House) 2010<\/p>\n

* \"acqua alta - ma quanto alta?\" translates as \"high water - but how high?\"\r\nAs seen\u00a0 on a safety leaflet from Venice.\r\n<\/pre>\n
—<\/p>\n
About the Poem:<\/h4>\n
This is the fourth and final Tuesday Poem selection from the recently released Flap: The Chook Book 2<\/em><\/strong> by Christchurch poets Victoria Broome, Catherine Fitchett, Barbara McCartney and Christina Stachurski. Blue <\/strong><\/em>is from Barbara\u2019s section of the anthology: the distance from here to there. <\/em>I love the transition of “blues” through waterscapes in the poem, and also the way this work complements Catherine’s Blue<\/strong><\/em> last week<\/a>—<\/em>with Barbara’s\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>poem making the return journey to Europe, again by water, while nonetheless remaining an odyssey recorded in shades of blue.<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
About Barbara:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Barbara wrote poetry as a child\u00a0and started again about ten years ago,     and has since been published in Poetry NZ, North and South       Magazine, The Press<\/em> (Christchurch), and\u00a0Takahe<\/em> magazine.\u00a0 Barbara is one of the Poetry Chooks who have just published their second anthology, Flap: the Chook Book 2<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 She likes poems to have more than one level of     meaning\/interpretation, and is usually pretty severe in editing her     own and others’ work.\u00a0 She think a poem needs to be polished (as a     jewel is), so that its essence\u00a0is\u00a0untrammelled by\u00a0extraneous     matter. Barbara also like hiding secrets within the language.<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
To read the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Blog<\/strong>\u2014and link to other Tuesday Poets posting around NZ and the world\u2014either click here<\/strong><\/a> or on the Quill icon in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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