Maxine Kumin And Her Poetry

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and feels.
�The Longing to be Saved�, is a dream, where her barn catches fire. �In
and out of dreams as thin as acetate.� She visualizes herself getting the
horses out, but they �wrench free, wheel, dash back�.
In, �Family Reunion�, she writes that �nothing is cost efficient here�.
Vegetables are grown on the farm, and animals are raised to be killed. �The
electric fence ticks like the slow heart of something we fed and bedded for a
year, then killed with kindness' one bullet and paid Jake Mott to do the
butchering.�
�Waiting for the End in New Smyrna Beach, Florida�, Maxine Kumin notices
in her venture in Florida a homeless couple with a baby. In her poem she
describes the couple watching the passing cars at Lytle and South Dixie to an �
egret grazing the canals who darts and pecks and lunges and after an eternity
at Lytle and South Dixie the light changes.�
In her last poem written in the booklet, �Getting Through�, she
describes different types of snow. When she writes, � ...

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