Eating and Drinking
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She Takes The Love The World Has Thrown Away
She is close to the seasons and the flowers!
She is trimming the briars
of Summer and Fall
or moving the snow on the Winter drive.
My hand is pale from the indoor hours.
My brain and its wires
entomb their tall
discordant frame
whose belly is a bouncing ball
along the song
its thin name choirs ...
...she is balancing the books the same!,
making the meal
of the household keep.
I have no clue!, no!, none at all!
what chemistry
has called the love
and labor of her endless fires
especially for such clueless shame
as wanders off to sleep,
early in the day, enthralled
by all the weak
and lacking circumstances
that came like some bleak star
to be a burden and a curse
that unlucky angels found
bundled in a heap.
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"A work of consequence--. Silva is a courageous, intelligent, compassionate
and unwaveringly analytical poet. He is at once an important lyricist and a
keen social critic."
Ron Bayes
Inexorably, "Eating and Drinking" maps the human condition, employing as compass points politics, philosophy, religion and love. At once almost dismissively critical and yet steeped in the anguish of humanity's self-inflicted suffering, it speaks to our ironies. Powerfully affecting the reader with poignant imagery, it evokes despair-- and finally hope.
"-- an agonizing scream, a lament for America and other western powers--dark stuff, heavy black
wine and bloody meat--. In Sam's world Hypocrisy and Sham are the house band; their music
never far from the top of the chart. --underlying it all; a deep, sincere love of humanity."
Laurence F. Hawkins
"Sam Silva's ear for the language and his knowledge of Latin countries have made him one of my
favorite poets over the years."
Margaret B. Baddour
About the Author
One of the most prolific poets of the current age,
Sam Silva’s extraordinary collections have been called “passionate verse” and
“deeply philosophical.” His transcendent examination of our world makes for, as
Pulitzer nominee Ron Bayes put it, “pretty poetry, yes; subtle in meaning,
obscure in image, but crisp in metaphor, and touching in its degree of
spiritual fervor.” Silva’s very real schizophrenic torment only serves to beg
the question; “Is such a brilliant body of work written in spite of-- or is it rather
propelled by the phantoms that haunt him?”
Poet Sam Silva has published numerous chapbooks and
audiotapes with five legitimate Small Press markets, as well as hundreds of
poems in a variety of literary magazines. Most remarkable, however, are the thousands
of poems that remain unpublished, for
Sam is prolific indeed – daily suffering out verse after unremitting verse, he
is forever near the act of creation.