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Another poet I enjoy who writes some damn-fine pastoral poems is David Troupes, who also does the Buttercup Festival webcomic (and who I posted about in the last /out/-reading thread, but eh... posting a new one). David Troupes totally blew me away, personally and, if you're ever looking for some easy to get into, enjoyable and non-sappy poetry about nature, then I strongly recommend picking up either of his collections. Here's one:
The color of
the sky over the town over
the river this evening
recalls my niece, the
sockets of her eyes
red like roses from crying,
& the eyes of a man
I knew once who reappeared
yesterday after four years
in prison for mischief,
he said—red
like two roses
from something the opposite,
the perfect inverse, of crying
—the way the river
sometimes pulls the sea
into itself &
its surface blossoms with war.
