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Sandra Ann Winters’ ‘Our Irish Garden’ is a delicious procession of rhyming couplets using an extended garden metaphor…”
– Leslie McGrath, Judge of the 2019 NY Yeats Society Poetry Prize praises a poem from this collection
Do Not Touch is Sandra Ann Winters’ second full-length book of poetry, in which section I weaves the themes of sexuality, nature, and everydayness. In “Anthurium,” her carefully constructed lines transform an inanimate flower into a sensuous “moist pink spathes inflorescence in folds, flaring out…the enchantress, painted tongue, poisonous beauty, come here.” Winters often explores intimacy in terms of unusual experiences expressed in language that is infused with “Nefertiti’s red-painted toes;” “she slips into a Koi pond, her breasts brush against the lily pads, dragonflies buzz.”
Intrigue begins in the title poem “Do Not Touch,” alluding to a museum sign posted above priceless artifacts. But her male companion touches everything in the museum, “You stroked the marble effigy of Margaret Butler, caressed her closed eyes, her cheeks her hair.” The drama of the section opens to “and then you touched me.”
Section II explores tender insights into Winters’ family history and non-sentimental stories of family loss. Her poems are skillfully crafted, forthright and grounded in clarity, eschewing gimmickry and flamboyance. Winters has a keen eye for the natural landscape and everything in it, imbuing her poems with vivid imagery. In “Under the Moon” (nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize), “My daddy built the out-of-house for us, whitewashed the walls, cut a star in the door…When I pee to the glinting stars’ tune, I know my daddy was the man-in-the-moon.”
Table of Contents
I
Anthurium 11
Do Not Touch 12
Our Irish Garden 13
Enough Said 14
I like something about just sleeping with a man
in the dark 15
I Never Slept with a Woman with Red-Painted Toes 16
The Way She Is 17
I Love 18
Lament for a Husband 19
Daybreak 20
The Spirit Level 21
Day and Night 22
A Luminous Strike 23
Hat in the Wind 24
An Imagined Life 25
The Imprint 26
Falling for You 27
Just Not Quite There Until… 28
The Outing 29
The Law of Attraction 30
Footsteps 31
I Am Learning You 32
Reign in My Heart 33
Dragonfly I 34
Dragonfly II 35
Four Nights to Remember 36
A Room with a Sea View 37
Regret 38
Snow Ballerinas 39
The Night Was Dark 40
Flying Flowers 41
Rejection 42
In the Dew-falling Hours 43
At Dusk 44
II
Wintering 47
Fishing 48
Under the Moon 50
Scars 51
Atlanta Braves 52
Roaring Water Bay 53
Sherkin Island 54
Pearl to Pearl 55
Pares, Pears, and Pairs 56
From the Mother’s Voice 57
Sister 58
Pillowcases 59
Canning Tomatoes 60
Frying Fish 62
There is an Edge to Our Love 63
Ennistymon, Ireland 64
About the Author 66
These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have some scuffs or marks on the edges of the pages
