Molly Peacock is the author of six volumes of poetry, including The Second Blush and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems, both published by W.W. Norton and Company. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker,The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as The Best of the Best American Poetry and The Oxford Book of American Poetry. She is also the author […]
A city mouse darts from the paws of night. A body drops from the jaws of night. A woman denies the laws of night, awake and trapped in the was of night. A young man turns in the gauze of night, unraveling the cause of night: that days extend their claws at night to re-enact […]
With your fifteen percent chance to survive, marriage seemed a doomed possibility, yet melanoma taught us to live on two tracks with two new velocities: Track Death—with cancer fantasies, life without you, without us—and Track Future —track of speed, of world detritus, of wife. Wife of gold and dirt. What won’t/will occur. Husband of the […]
As we pack up our picnic dishes, lake-tired, dreamy, we notice two cygnets, almost the size of their parents, flanking the grown swans diving for fish. The whole way back we keep them in our eye as we tote our trash and blanket. Almost grown. About the age, in swan-years, that we were when we […]
I watch my husband at a party, a shy boy become a man at ease at last. Success freshens his face, the boy now free to pass beneath his expressions as if slipping under a fence. I used to slip under a fence to swim in a stream-fed pond and laze in the water till […]
The best thing about a hand-made pattern is the flaw. Sooner or later in a hand-loomed rug, among the squares and flattened triangles, a little red nub might soar above a blue field, or a purple cross might sneak in between the neat ochre teeth of the border. The flaw we live by, the wrong […]
Acclaimed poet and writer Molly Peacock talks about her forthcoming collection The Second Blush, due out from W.W. Norton and Company in June 2008.