Scuffed Case Informed by Proofs of Passage.

Scuffed Case Informed by Proofs of Passage. Scuffed Case Informedby Proofs of Passage Inside the shell of my echoing house I carry a chestnut suitcase. Its locks keyed closed, leathery sides patched, furrowed as elephant skin. It keeps accounts. Keeps tabs on me. Bitter as November fog. I packed it full one week at a time, forced it shut. It couldn't take any more days with you away to nowhere. I welcomed the hurt my arms held toting those whispers. That achy, half-shelled emptiness. Now I crack the case open to wisps of maternal love, my withered need. Still the bag bulges with ruins. Merle merlea pattern of coat color pigmentation with dark, irregular blotches on a lighter background. Seen in some Collies and Welsh corgis. In shorthaired dogs, e.g. Great Danes and Dachshunds, the similar pattern is called dapple. Nudelman is a Toronto poet, lawyer and educator. Her firstbook of poems, Borrowed Light (Guernica Editions, 2003), won the 2004Canadian Canadian(kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. Jewish Book Award for Poetry as well as a prize in the ArizonaAuthors Association 2004 Literary Contest. Her second collection ofpoems, We, the Women, was released in the fall of 2006 by GuernicaEditions. She is currently completing her third book. Some of the booksthat she has been reading lately are What Do We Know by Mary Oliver Mary Oliver (1935 – ) is an American poet. LifeMary Oliver was born on September 10, 1935, in Maple Heights, Ohio. As a teenager, she lived for a brief while in the home of the deceased Edna St. , Newand Collected Poems Among the numerous literary works titled Collected Poems are the following: Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe Collected Poems by Conrad Aiken Collected Poems by Kay Boyle Collected Poems by Robert Browning 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz and Camber by Don McKay Don McKay (born 1942) is an award-winning Canadian poet, editor, and educator.Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971. .