Future Readings:
Figures of Speech Reading Series
Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 7 p.m., In Other Words Book Store, 14 Killingsworth St.,
Portland, Oregon. Featured Readers: Mark Thalman and TBA.
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Moving into Night
After dinner dishes have been washed and put away,
I walk down to the dock.
Clouds hover against snow-capped peaks.
The sun, already below the horizon, turns glaciers pink.
Shadows stretch across the hills
like blankets being drawn up for the night.
Along the distant shore,
one last fisherman trolls for kokanee . . .
Below my feet, trout meander between pilings--
glide over dappled stones.
The moon rises. On the water,
it is shattered by each wave.
With cupped hands, I scoop up a brilliant shard
and wash my face with wet light.
Soon, the wind dies, and the moon is again whole.
Pale stars, floating lanterns, dot the lake.
I untie my boat, shove off,
and lifting the oars, row across the heavens.
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Mark Thalman's is the author of Catching
the Limit published by Fairweather Books
(2009), which is part of their Northwest
Poetry Series. Thalman's poetry has been
widely published for almost four decades.
His poems have appeared in Carolina
Quarterly, CutBank, Many Mountains
Moving, Pedestal Magazine, and Verse
Daily, among others. He received his
Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
from the University of Oregon, and he
teaches English in the public schools.
Thalman is the editor of poetry.us.com.
He lives in Forest Grove, Oregon.
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Catching the Limit
$15 + $3.50 postage and handling for customers in U.S.A. and Canada.
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Paperback: 88 pages
Audience: Young Adults and Adults
Catching the Limit © 2009 Mark Thalman.
All rights reserved.
ISBN 978-0-9822982-0-6
Library of Congress
Control Number 2009921309
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Catching the Limit can also be purchased at the following Bookstores:
Barnes & Noble at Pacific University
2032 Pacific Ave.
Forest Grove 97116
503.352.2224
Powell's Books on-line
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