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Set in New Mexico whose mythology she deepens and distills, the reader hears dialogue between what is human <em>\u201cMagpie, tell my soul\/ which I thought was so black\/ is not\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and what is winged and wild. \u201c<em>Auntie, it sparkles: you beautiful slut.\u201d<\/em> Not since Ted Hughes\u2019 Crow has a mediating bird\/human consciousness been used to such powerful effect.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Stephanie Dickinson, author of\u00a0<em>Half Girl<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Road of Five Churches<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Penelope Scambly Schott<\/strong> is the author of four previous chapbooks plus a novel and seven full-length poetry books including three historical verse narratives,<em>\u00a0Penelope: The Story of the Half-Scalped Woman, The Pest Maiden: A Story of Lobotomy,\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth\u00a0<\/em>(Oregon Book Award for Poetry, 2008), as well as four lyric collections,\u00a0<em>The Perfect Mother\u00a0<\/em>(Violet Reed Hass Prize, 1994),\u00a0<em>Baiting the Void<\/em>\u00a0(Orphic Prize, 2005),\u00a0<em>May the Generations Die in the Right Order,\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Six Lips<\/em>. At home in Portland, Oregon (where she is never harassed by magpies), Penelope works, hikes, paints, and spoils her family, especially Lily Schott Sweetdog.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div role=\"tabpanel\" class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"tabs_desc_672_2\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<P><strong>Magpie at Night<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nThis night has too many pieces.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nI lie awake on my white lace pillow<BR>\r\nin a black-laced room, wondering,<BR>\r\nwhere in the world does Magpie sleep?<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n<EM>T\u00eda, I sleep in the cup of the dipper;<BR>\r\nI dip my beak in the Milky Way.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nI watch the sleepers<BR>\r\nspinning toward morning.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Magpie, why can\u2019t I sleep?<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nYou write too much, Auntie.<BR>\r\nLet your dreams lie in peace.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But I need to hold on to something:<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the hem of the sheet or the heat<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of his skin. Or a pen or this pencil<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I trimmed to a point with my knife.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nPoor old Auntie. You used to be smarter.<BR>\r\nyou used to suck your thumb.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Magpie, I almost remember:<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0such a warm, wet dark.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nDrop your pencil.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nI will rock you back to sleep in a basket<BR>\r\nwoven from the tails<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nof shooting stars.<\/EM><\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<P><strong>Magpie Confesses Me<\/strong><BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n<EM>Tell me your sins, T\u00eda.<BR>\r\n(I, of course, have none.)<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Magpie, I have sinned:<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I married a man I didn\u2019t love.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nDid you fledge the nestlings?<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I did.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nAnd are you truly sorry?<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I did what I did.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nOkay, tell me another.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I hit a parked car and skedaddled.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nI do that every day.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But I didn\u2019t leave any note.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nAuntie, you have sinned;<BR>\r\nI always leave my white calling card.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nLet this be your act of contrition:<BR>\r\nSplat your words on the world<BR>\r\nand be sure they are Honest.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nHere Magpie taps my shoulder<BR>\r\nwith her holy tail.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Magpie, Magpie, but what<BR>\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0if I cannot promise that?<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nThen you are damned.<BR>\r\n<BR>\r\nThen I am damned.<\/P>\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t \r\n\t\t\t\t <\/div>\r\n <script>\r\n\t\tjQuery(function () {\r\n\t\t\tjQuery('#myTab_672 a:first').tab('show')\r\n\t\t});\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\tjQuery(function(){\r\n\t\t\tvar b=\"fadeIn\";\r\n\t\t\tvar c;\r\n\t\t\tvar a;\r\n\t\t\td(jQuery(\"#myTab_672 a\"),jQuery(\"#tab-content_672\"));function d(e,f,g){\r\n\t\t\t\te.click(function(i){\r\n\t\t\t\t\ti.preventDefault();\r\n\t\t\t\t\tjQuery(this).tab(\"show\");\r\n\t\t\t\t\tvar h=jQuery(this).data(\"easein\");\r\n\t\t\t\t\tif(c){c.removeClass(a);}\r\n\t\t\t\t\tif(h){f.find(\"div.active\").addClass(\"animated \"+h);a=h;}\r\n\t\t\t\t\telse{if(g){f.find(\"div.active\").addClass(\"animated \"+g);a=g;}else{f.find(\"div.active\").addClass(\"animated \"+b);a=b;}}c=f.find(\"div.active\");\r\n\t\t\t\t});\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t});\r\n\t\t\r\n\r\n\t\tfunction do_resize(){\r\n\r\n\t\t\tvar width=jQuery( '.tab-content .tab-pane iframe' ).width();\r\n\t\t\tvar height=jQuery( '.tab-content .tab-pane iframe' ).height();\r\n\r\n\t\t\tvar toggleSize = true;\r\n\t\t\tjQuery('iframe').animate({\r\n\t\t\t    width: toggleSize ? width : 640,\r\n\t\t\t    height: toggleSize ? height : 360\r\n\t\t\t  }, 250);\r\n\r\n\t\t\t  toggleSize = !toggleSize;\r\n\t\t}\r\n\r\n\r\n\t<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Penelope Scambly Schott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":674,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[28],"product_tag":[69],"class_list":{"0":"post-673","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-poetry","7":"product_tag-penelope-scambly-schott","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}