A Night Without Armor
Poems
by Jewel Kilcher

Review:
This book has wheedled it's way into my heart slowly. Some of the poems hit you fast and hard, in a truck-like fashion. Some of them take a little while to sink in, more like watering a plant. But all of them have something to say, and I guarantee that some of them will have great significance to you. Jewel's use of metaphor has made me see the world in a new way, whether she's remembering her childhood in a haze of nostalgia, or looking at whores in the streets of Tai Pei. I don't pretend to understand where Jewel is coming from in all of these poems, but she brings me to a better understanding of myself...and isn't that what poetry is all about?

Excerpts:

Shush

Can you imagine
how silent
a plane crash would be
if you were deaf?

How unbearably loud a rape?


As a Child I Walked

As a child I walked
with noisy fingers
along the hemline
of so many meadows
back home

Green fabric
stretched out
shy earth
shock of sky

I'd sit on logs like pulpits
listen to the sermon
of sparrows
and find god in Simplicity,
there amongst the dandelion
and thorn


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