| NANCY TAYLOR EVERETT |
| Juliet As Herself | |
| 2004 |
| "Juliet
As Herself is a collection of smart yet tender poems. Here the Juliet
of Shakespeare shadows the life of a curious, buoyant, modern young woman
as she considers many topics including cartography, art, trees, hair, dirt,
envy, and, of course, love. Nancy Taylor Everett has a flair for fresh language
and a fine ear for the music of words. Everett's Juliet is a person we want
to know better, someone whose life we'd like to follow. This is a wonderful
book." —Susan Terris |
Juliet and Love
Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily . . . II.v
Juliet watches the wind wave the grass.
Was it the pulse of the waves,
the roots that anchored the waves, or was it
the
wind itself moving invisibly in waves
that transfixed her?
This,
she sighs, was getting
tedious. But she let the thought simmer
while she
waited around
for things to make sense.
Maybe random traces
were enough to suggest the stirring of plot,
like a
movie marquee with its
lights out here and there.
This sullen mood led inevitably
to the subject of love.
People, she noticed,
let things blow along
until love died down flat,
and then there they were,
marooned again.
Juliet watches the grass bow and rise.
Its helpless grace. Its charming sway.
Nancy Taylor Everett will
read at the Writers' Center on
Friday, April 8th, 2005
at 8 pm. For more on Ms.Everett,
visit her website at http://home.earthlink.net/~evertays/index.html