Wild Things
by S.A. Bartfay

ISBN: 0-9656161-1-8
Saddle-stitched, $5.00
1997
5.5 x 8.5 inches, 24 pages
POETRY

Currently out of print.
This collection of nine poems moves us into the natural world where the “wild things” live. From the opening poem spoken in the voice of a woman who abandoned her family in the city to live in the woods, to the farm girl on her way back home after grape-picking, to the last poem spoken in the voices of a man’s hunting dogs, there is always the sense of a world larger than ourselves and it is our job to figure out how to live in the landscape “we litter with reaction.” Bartfay lets “the wild things / wander into my blindness”, painting a orld simultaneously beautiful and sensual but also capable of harm.

From Wild Things...

The Creaking of a Floor

"Better to be the creaking of a floor
than a shrilly transparent perfection."
-- Zbigniew Herbert

In life I was upright
along a slouching wall,
daughter of our sound god,
the wind I slowly forget.

After life,
stifled light
sometimes sulks
where I lay, and feet
are the gods that give me voice.

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