Lyrical Somerville – May 22

On May 22, 2013, in Latest News, by The Somerville Times

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Kim Triedman is both an award-winning poet and a novelist. Her debut novel, The Other Room, and two full-length poetry collections, Plum(b) and Hadestown, will release in 2013. The Other Room was a finalist for the 2008 James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and Kim’s poetry has garnered many awards, including the 2008 Main Street Rag Chapbook Award and the 2010 Ibbetson Street Poetry Award. Kim’s poems have been published in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Prairie Schooner. Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Kim co-organized and co-chaired a collaborative poetry reading at Harvard University to benefit Partners in Health and the people of Haiti. The reading was featured on NPR’s Here and Now with Robin Young and led to the publication of a Poets for Haiti anthology, which Kim developed and edited.

Kim Triedman.

Kim Triedman.

Provisions
I bought one pomegranate this morning just to admire it.
They were two for five dollars, but I was only
purchasing color.
Can we eat it?my daughter asked that evening.
She was limping through her chemistry homework,
watching me watching the pomegranate.
Not until I’m finished, I answered vaguely,
wondering what exactly that meant.
It sat on the counter, defining red.  Even the tomatoes
knew not to argue.
When my husband came home, he palmed it absently
then rolled it down the hallway for the dog.
It’s in my office, now, catching the afternoon sun.
I’m not sure why it matters so much
but it does.  I know that the seeds inside are
waiting, jewel-like, encrusted in their pulpy womb.
But for the moment I’m content just to
see it there when I turn my head.  Sitting
quietly on the sill.  Concentrating all that color
in one place.
– Kim Triedman
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