Kingfisher

<p>The dramaturg writer and teacher Matthew Goulish reflects on the practice of reading poetry of reading just one poem: 'Kingfisher' by Ed Roberson. How to attend to follow the course of poem as a waterway to recognise in its surface tension impending drops hidden obstacles and disguised turns? How also and at the same time to attend to an interruption - an accidental sighting - with equal curiosity? Sincerity follows the lines of the poem inside and outside inward and outward drawing in a series of correspondences and correspondents roots and sources until reading becomes a collective endeavor; the words of Ed Roberson Michelle Sherburne Renee Gladman and Lyn Hejinian are also here. As the subject of this particular poem surfaces to catch a glimpse is not so obviously a gift: the practice of catching sight might also be injurious to another's freedom. And so we follow the trail of the poem through Smuggler's Notch. </p>