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Frank Steele
Two of the best poets in Kentucky, Ernie O’Dell and David Rogers, have studied with Frank Steele at Western Kentucky University. Frank was editor of Plainsong from 1979-1992 and he and his wife Peggy are co-authors of the poetry collection Singing Into That Fresh Light (Blue Sofa Press, 2001), edited and with an introduction by Robert Bly. The poem below, “Wasp,” is one of Frank’s poems from that book.
Wasp
He looks like a graph that escaped
paper. His fingers reach up and clasp
each other. His body
hangs its long weighted sack
down. Slowly the wings
blink. He
hangs the claw of himself
in air, a talon at prayer.
And when the hum
comes, some current goes
through me, too, the way those
thin black legs wipe each other
clean.
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