{"product_id":"the-hour-between-dog-and-wolf","title":"The Hour Between Dog and Wolf","description":"\u003cp\u003e\r\n\tLaure-Anne Bosselaar's poetry captures the lives of \"lost souls roaming\": be they young girls in convents, merchants, whores, widows, soldiers, nuns or farmers. Eccentric, vibrant people, who lived in Europe in the midst of the fallout from the World Wars, are imagined, remembered, made unforgettable. Other poems speak to her experiences in America, her reflections on her european childhood and to adult love and intimacy. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tThis Morning, God\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t          Four A.M. Snow on the roof like a stone slab.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tI wake in the dark again, leave my husband,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\ttiptoe into the kitchen, silently stir my coffee \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twith a plastic spoon: I don't want to wake him. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t          I won't forget those dawns without him:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tslam the doors, slap the lights on, stir in my coffee \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twith metal things to chase away the ghouls \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tof the lonely choking me in their burlap wings.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t          Today, I stand in the middle of our house, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\teverything still with unblemished intensity: no wind, \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tno moon, not even the weary whir of an insect hovering.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tLeave me here: with the smell of coffee, and this\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t          other scent ebbing from my body: sex, my husband,\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tour bed. Let me tiptoe through our house, press my palms\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tand face to the bedroom door an instant so the rest of the day\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\twill be easy: work, phone, traffic, more work-- \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t          the incessant beating in my chest for two now.  \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t© BOA Editions, Ltd 1997\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tAvailable editions:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\t-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPaperback ISBN: 1-880238-47-0\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPrice: $12.50 \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\tPublishing Date: June 1997\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8419515909,"sku":"1880238470","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/THE_HOUR_BETWEEN.jpg?v=1527683591","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/the-hour-between-dog-and-wolf","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}