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UUttaahh SSttaattee UUnniivveerrssiittyy DDiiggiittaallCCoommmmoonnss@@UUSSUU Swenson Poetry Award Winners USU Press 2004 WWhheerree SShhee AAllwwaayyss WWaass Frannie Lindsay Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/swenson_awards Part of the Creative Writing Commons RReeccoommmmeennddeedd CCiittaattiioonn Lindsay, Frannie, "Where She Always Was" (2004). Swenson Poetry Award Winners. 11. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/swenson_awards/11 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the USU Press at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Swenson Poetry Award Winners by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Where She Always Was 3/16/04 12:55 PM Page i WHERE SHE ALWAYS WAS Where She Always Was 3/16/04 12:55 PM Page ii Where She Always Was 3/16/04 12:55 PM Page iii May Swenson Poetry Award Series W H E R E S H E A LWAY S WA S poems by Frannie Lindsay UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS Logan, Utah Where She Always Was 3/16/04 12:55 PM Page iv Utah State University Press Logan, UT 84322-7800 Copyright 2004 Utah State University Press All rights reserved Cover photograph by Meg Birnbaum Cover design by Barbara Yale-Read Manufactured in the United States of America The following poems have appeared in the journals cited: “Magnolia,” “Magdalene Bathing,” “Should This Become Ordinary,” (forthcoming) in Endicott Review;“Remains” inField;“Mother’s Goldfish,” “Rain Turning to Snow,” “Aging Nude” in Folio;“Midas’s Daughter at Fifty” (previous version, entitled “Curing Midas”) in Graham House Review; “Eve In Exile” (previous version, entitled “Eve’s Last Words”) in Malahat Review;“Pyre,” “Urn,” “Respects” (forthcoming) in Salamander;“Lighters and Knives” (forthcoming) in Small Pond Magazine;“Remembering Stars” (previous version) in Windless Orchard. “Urn” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lindsay, Frannie. Where she always was : poems / by Frannie Lindsay. p. cm. — (May Swenson Poetry Award series) ISBN 0-87421-581-1 (alk. paper)ISBN 0-87421-498-X (e-book) I. Title. II. Series. PS3612.I533W48 2004 811’.6—dc22 2004004431 Where She Always Was 3/16/04 12:55 PM Page v For Rosemary, no matter what Where She Always Was 3/16/04 12:55 PM Page vi Where She Always Was 3/16/04 12:55 PM Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Foreword by J. D. McClatchy xi Part One Gathering Him In 5 Rain Turning to Snow 6 Feral Kittens 7 Missing 8 For Nadja 9 Gradual Clearing 10 Ladybug 11 Taking off My Cross 12 Kiss, Afterward 13 Dog, Napping 14 Happiness 15 Magnolia 16 Rapunzel Descending 17 Part Two Respects 21 Mother’s Goldfish 22 I Liked My Mother Best 23 Bad Dog Man 24 Underneath 25 Saturday Mornings, 1954 26 By the Lake 27 Remembering Stars 28 Square Dance, 1956 29 Cello Lessons 30 The Correction 31 Midas Alone 32 Vigil 33 Chagall’s Floating Woman 34 Personal Effects 35 Unafraid 36 Mother 37 Urn 38 Where She Always Was 3/16/04 12:55 PM Page viii Part Three Cold Front 41 Midas’s Daughter at Fifty 42 Aging Nude 43 Lines on a Window 44 Cinderella at Work 45 Thaw 46 Antiphon 47 Lighters and Knives 48 The Clothesline Project 49 White Shirt 50 Eve In Exile 51 Nowhere Near Bethlehem 52 Magdalene Bathing 53 Should This Become Ordinary 54 Old Dog 55 Remains 56 Silent Night 57 Blessing at the End of Time 58 Pyre 59 Where She Always Was 60 Benediction 61 About the Author 63 The May Swenson Poetry Award 65
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