http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2008/10/to-levitate-by-cathryn-essinger/ Poetry for Everyone. Tue, 22 May 2012 20:06:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2008/10/to-levitate-by-cathryn-essinger/#comment-931 Rena Navon Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:01:51 +0000 http://www.rattle.com/blog/?p=145#comment-931 I am "into witches" in my writing and love the belief expressed here in the strange stunt of levitating so much a part of a witches means of movement as she makes her busy rounds. "Running down a hill, the ground rising to meet me" are words cleverly put into the mouth of a child as a ploy for convincing us heavy-to-move adults that this is possible. Transfering fact to young feeling saves the tenuous truth of the witch's existenceand returns us to innocence and trust in our bodies so bullied by the necessities of work that so often replace joyous play. I am “into witches” in my writing and love the belief expressed here in the strange stunt of levitating so much a part of a witches means of movement as she makes her busy rounds. “Running down a hill, the ground rising to meet me” are words cleverly put into the mouth of a child as a ploy for convincing us heavy-to-move adults that this is possible. Transfering fact to young feeling saves the tenuous truth of the witch’s existenceand returns us to innocence and trust in our bodies so bullied by the necessities of work that so often replace joyous play.

]]> http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2008/10/to-levitate-by-cathryn-essinger/#comment-930 Cindy Bousquet Harris Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:05:29 +0000 http://www.rattle.com/blog/?p=145#comment-930 Lovely, dream-like -- its memories of childhood. Lovely, dream-like — its memories of childhood.

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