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Hugh Ogden
Hugh Ogden has published five books of
poetry LOOKING FOR HISTORY (1991), TWO ROADS AND THIS SPRING
(1993), & GIFT (1998), WINDFALLS (1996) and NATURAL THINGS (1998), a tape
recording of him reading his poetry (1992) and a CD of a poetry
reading (2003). He has recent work in the NORTH DAKOTA QUARTERLY and
the SOUTH DAKOTA REVIEW. Ogden teaches one course at the Academy For
The Arts in Hartford, CT. He teaches full time at Trinity College
where he is a Full Professor.
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Cottonwood
In the language of the deer
people I'm at home by rivers
where so many settle, animals,
families, drifting cotton-fluff
in spring. You can understand
their languages and mine by
putting your ear to the ground,
by letting the sounds of summer
die into the stasis of snow-
cover, the almost beat of flake
after flake until, months later,
they melt, make brook and river
sounds as water heals what has
frozen: names, sentences, even
cries because earth accepts
the old and new, nurtures all
floating word-seeds and grows
skin to cover everything raw.
Poems © Hugh Ogden 2004. All
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