For Richard B. Wright
He binds them without knot, twine or even splice,
binds the agreeable words one to the other and others
like the elements of water they cleave in storied delight
while each continues to expound:
sprung leaves on a rushing stream, unbound.
Merle Nudelman is a lawyer, poet, editor and teacher. Her first collection, Borrowed Light (Guernica, 2003), won the 2004 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Poetry. True as Moonlight, which is her fourth poetry collection, will be released in 2014. Her other books are We, the Women and The He We Knew, both published by Guernica in 2006 and 2010 respectively. She is poetry editor of the journal Parchment.
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