Maxine Kumin And Her Poetry

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and feels.
“The Longing to be Saved”, is a dream, where her barn catches fire. “In
and out of dreams as thin as acetate.” She visualizes herself getting the
horses out, but they “wrench free, wheel, dash back”.
In, “Family Reunion”, she writes that “nothing is cost efficient here”.
Vegetables are grown on the farm, and animals are raised to be killed. “The
electric fence ticks like the slow heart of something we fed and bedded for a
year, then killed with kindness' one bullet and paid Jake Mott to do the
butchering.”
“Waiting for the End in New Smyrna Beach, Florida”, Maxine Kumin notices
in her venture in Florida a homeless couple with a baby. In her poem she
describes the couple watching the passing cars at Lytle and South Dixie to an “
egret grazing the canals who darts and pecks and lunges and after an eternity
at Lytle and South Dixie the light changes.”
In her last poem written in the booklet, “Getting Through”, she
describes different types of snow. When she writes, “ ...

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