the first order of business
THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS by Elizabeth Ferguson
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Any of the poems in The First Order Of Business could be the first order of business in a sequence of thoughts, a conversation, a letter, a memoir. The poems follow these threads, documenting slices of experienced life, dreamed life, ideas, and questions.
Boldly, the collection moves from the serious to the hilarious with the blink of the reader's eye or the turning of a page.
Elizabeth Ferguson is a contemporary poet living and working in Portland, Oregon.
excerpt:
GREENSBORO
How sane some appear in love.
I'm like the man Blake saw
dipping newspaper in ketchup
on the side of the road.
How my mind has stopped
for all accustomed things.
Lady, I mean lately, getting
my mink eyes right comes rare.
