EPISODES OF MEANING: OLIVER RICE Oliver Rice has received the Theodore Roethke Prize and twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies in the United States, as well as in Canada, England, Austria, Turkey, and India. His book oF poems, On Consenting to Be a Man, has been introduced by Cyberwit, a diversified publishing house in the cultural capital Allahabad, India. Next Poem:....................................................................................................................................... Back to Poetry Index

It is Saturday by the Gregorian calendar,
the morning after a bad storm.

He sits at the kitchen table with the news.
Drops an ice cube in his coffee.

Rumors of Jamaica. Of Bangladesh.
Of a dinosaur find. Real estate in Maine.

He has a headache again.
Concludes that his medication is the cause.

Recalls his grandfather.
Pictures him, bones and shreds of fabric.

Tilts back his chair, gazes out at the weather.
At a woman entering a space vehicle.

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