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fosterling
noun
A foster child
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One of the earliest poems I wrote in the collection, "Fosterling", includes the words, "me waiting until I was nearly 50 to credit marvels", and that too is about things going up, lifting and lightening, in spite of sluggish surroundings.
In his 1991 collection Seeing Things he included a poem, "Fosterling", which seemed like a blueprint for how he himself might proceed, speaking of a "heaviness of being" producing "poetry / Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens".
sculls final A – Karsten Fosterling, Alexander Belongogoff, James McRae and Cameron Girdlestone have won at two recent world cup regattas.
While his essay clearly comes down on one side, as does "Fosterling", the poems themselves have been more hushed in the presence of mortality, more open to the idea of loss as something pure.
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A poem, "Fosterlings," rose, which concludes: "Me waiting until I was nearly fifty/To credit marvels.
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