Broken Symmetry

Michigan poet Jack Ridl leads readers into reflective connection with the everyday world in this unique and enjoyable volume.

Jack Ridl is professor of English at Hope College, Holland, Michigan

Broken Symmetry

1

(4)

Fractals

The History of the Pencil

5

(3)

This is Another Reason to Write a Poem

8

(2)

Against Elegies

10

(1)

Rainbow

11

(2)

Framing the Morning

13

(1)

After Reading Dom John Chapman, Benedictine Abbot

14

(2)

Learning from Old Houses

16

(2)

Last Chores of Fall

18

(2)

Fractals

20

(2)

Fragments from the Early Morning

22

(1)

The Last Thing

23

(1)

This Was My Real Life

24

(2)

Waiting with William Stafford in an Oregon Airport

26

(2)

Toys in the Attic

28

(2)

St. Francis in Disney World

30

(1)

The Crank Collector

31

(2)

That's Enough

33

(1)

The Mail Carrier

34

(2)

Tinnitus

36

(2)

Out in the Fields with the Dogs a Week before Christmas

38

(2)

The Materialism of Angels

40

(4)

Quantum Theory

I Am Wearing Your Shirt

44

(4)

Worn Morning

48

(2)

When I Was Conceived

50

(2)

What Then

52

(2)

Forgetting How to Sleep

54

(2)

The Remote

56

(3)

The Ace of Spades

59

(1)

Sorting through the Records

60

(2)

February Is No Month to Move

62

(1)

During the Last Two Weeks of His Life, He Wrote Only the Last Lines of Poems

63

(2)

Waking Up in a Cold Sweat

65

(2)

Hands

67

(2)

Tabula Rasa

69

(2)

The Salt and Pepper Collector

71

(2)

The Sculptor of TV

73

(1)

The Time between Mornings

74

(1)

Traveling Back

75

(1)

Selling the House

76

(2)

Evensong

78

(1)

Still Here

79

(4)

Differential Equations

Aubade for This Morning

83

(1)

On Our Dog's Birthday

84

(2)

Flying in over Key West

86

(1)

Divine Women: The Woodblocks of Utamaro

87

(1)

The Rain on the Burren

88

(4)

Walking the Creek with Dogs

92

(2)

Setting out the Puzzle Pieces

94

(2)

The Gardeners

96

(1)

My Father Gardening in Heaven

97

(1)

Raking Leaves with the Gods in July

98

(2)

A Few Days before Another Memorial Day Weekend

100

(2)

Knowing Now You'll Never Be a Clown

102

(2)

Repairing the House

104

(2)

Sisley's ``Snow at Louveciennes''

106

(1)

Instead of Vacationing in Maine

107

(2)

The Comforting

109

(1)

The Drywallers Listen to Sinatra while They Work

110

(2)

What We Do

112

(1)

Waiting on the Beatitudes

113

(1)

The Man Who Wanted to Change the World

114

(2)

Burying the Poems

116

(1)

Keeping On

117

(1)

Living in the Twenty-First Century

118

(1)

Acknowledgments

119

(2)

Credits

121

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