{"id":166,"date":"2010-11-19T18:49:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T23:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=166"},"modified":"2010-11-19T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T01:57:16","slug":"carolyn-forch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/166\/poems\/carolyn-forch\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolyn Forch&eacute; &#8211; The Museum of Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is your museum of stones, assembled in matchbox and tin,<br \/>\ncollected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct,<br \/>\nbattlefield, threshing floor, basilica, abattoir,<br \/>\nstones loosened by tanks in the streets<br \/>\nof a city whose earliest map was drawn in ink on linen,<br \/>\nschoolyard stones in the hand of a corpse,<br \/>\npebble from Apollinaire\u2019s <em>oui<\/em>,<br \/>\nstone of the mind within us<br \/>\ncarried from one silence to another,<br \/>\nstone of cromlech and cairn, schist and shale, hornblende,<br \/>\nagate, marble, millstones, and ruins of choirs and shipyards,<br \/>\nchalk, marl, and mudstone from temples and tombs,<br \/>\nstone from the silvery grass near the scaffold,<br \/>\nstone from the tunnel lined with bones,<br \/>\nlava of the city\u2019s entombment,<br \/>\nchipped from lighthouse, cell wall, scriptorium,<br \/>\npaving stones from the hands of those who rose against the army,<br \/>\nstones where the bells had fallen, where the bridges were blown,<br \/>\nthose that had flown through windows and weighted petitions,<br \/>\nfeldspar, rose quartz, slate, blueschist, gneiss, and chert,<br \/>\nfragments of an abbey at dusk, sandstone toe<br \/>\nof a Buddha mortared at Bamiyan,<br \/>\nstone from the hill of three crosses and a crypt,<br \/>\nfrom a chimney where storks cried like human children,<br \/>\nstones newly fallen from stars, a stillness of stones, a heart,<br \/>\naltar and boundary stone, marker and vessel, first cast, lode, and hail,<br \/>\nbridge stones and others to pave and shut up with,<br \/>\nstone apple, stone basil, beech, berry, stone brake,<br \/>\nstone bramble, stone fern, lichen, liverwort, pippin, and root,<br \/>\nconcretion of the body, as blind as cold as deaf,<br \/>\nall earth a quarry, all life a labor, stone-faced, stone-drunk<br \/>\nwith hope that this assemblage, taken together, would become<br \/>\na shrine or holy place, an ossuary, immovable and sacred,<br \/>\nlike the stone that marked the path of the sun as it entered the human dawn.<\/p>\n<p><em>The New Yorker<\/em>, March 26, 2007<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is your museum of stones, assembled in matchbox and tin, collected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct, battlefield, threshing floor, basilica, abattoir, stones loosened by tanks in the streets of a city whose earliest map was drawn 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