Dream in Pienza and Other Poems: Selected Poems 1963–1977
By Toni Ortner
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Toni Ortner
Toni Ortner lives in Brattleboro, Vermont where she is Vice President of the Write Action Board, a nonprofit organization that sponsors evengts and readings for writers in New England. She is the point person for the Write Action Radio Hour and hosts her own show the fourth Sunday of each month where she interviews writers and they read work. The program can be streamed on line at wvew.org Toni has had l4 books published by fine small presses. In 2012 Summoned (Goose River Press) was published. It is about six famous women who heard the call of the Divine and altered their lives to change history. These women speak in first person. Reviews of Summoned are online at Amazon reviews. The book can be ordered through gooseriverpress.com or as an e book. In 2012 Writing With Our Blood was published by Moon Publishing Company. The book honors 20th century women: writers, artists, survivors of war. There is a section devoted to Lyn Lifshin based on letters, a section on mothers and daughters and women friends The book can be ordred at www.moon publiishing. com or as an e book. In 2013 three new books will be published. A White Page Demands Its Letters and Traveling, a Perspective will be ;published by unboundcontent.com. Traveling, a Perspective is about a woman' transition after divorce. It is an honest, breathtaking account. Review by Lyn Lifshin can be seen on web.me,com/Ver,ontviews/vermontviews/Reviews Old%26New.html. Double Jeopardy will be published by Finishing Line Press. Toni is available for readings and teaching.
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Dream in Pienza and Other Poems - Toni Ortner
Soft spring sing
for the long white path through the pines
is lined with fallen leaves like years
still we sweep our separate shores
for sight of stars.
Margot
I say
once white horses rose in the dawn
underneath my words
flow long days of laughter
sudden
sadness.
Sam, the Tailor Man
O tell them you’re not dead
there’s no such thing as death
you only turned left
at the green arrow
we
could not
follow
Dream in Pienza
The way to this place
took a long time in coming;
it is always like this
when one arrives through dreams
in the final place
where it is not possible
to stay;
part of the heart rebels
leaps out blind with the rage
of wanting,
grasps each moment with stiffened claws
and succeeds only
in entombing liquid gestures
like a marble monument,
ruins all the lovely hills with
monuments.
I sang the sunny part of the day
when white oxen grazed on trees,
the song of a child without thought
for whom things are as they are
not a forgetting;
long curved horns pierced the sky,
the earth a burnt sienna
the mountains huge and faded
to a soft and luminous blue
like a sleeping woman’s breasts,
the sky a fiercer blue at noon
had come down upon the land
lay flat and still upon her
and she waited white with heat.
Darkness came swiftly, as we rode
I lay back and saw
the sun, a yellow ball,
passing through the leaves
the rows of poplar trees
turned to the right then left
like giant spears
that Caesar’s troops had seen.
The sky a milky blackness
and the stars were clear
turned first to the right then left
and dizzied me.
It is dark and still;
we walk along the center road
that leads us out of town
and the ground is white behind us.
We step long steps in our shadows,
on either side
the cypress trees tower like black spires
and Scorpio