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April 04, 2004
"Noon, Thursday," John Stone
by Ron HoganI dropped in
on my mother
dazzling in her yellow sweater
having lunch.
I sat down
at her table.
I'd seen her
two days ago
but this time
I startled her
I think--too early
in the week
for another visit.
You just appeared
out of nowhere!
she said
then asked me, smiling:
What have you been doing
all these years?
I didn't know what to say.
It's the very
same question
I've been asking myself.
From Music from Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems, part of a recently composed cycle of poems called "Serenity Gardens."
Another group of Stone poems inspired by paintings includes "The Forest Fire," "American Gothic," and "Early Sunday Morning." An NPR story from the summer of 2003 included his work "Gaudeamus Igitur." Anita Sharpe profiled Stone for the Wall Street Journal in 1998.
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