Deep Water: ‘Rock Bowl,’ by Jason Grundstrom-Whitney
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Editor’s note: This week, Deep Water is excited to welcome the first of three upcoming guest editors – Maine poets who will bring an exciting new range of poetic voices to the column. This poem, Jason Grundstrom-Whitney’s “Rock Bowl,” was chosen and is introduced by Maliseet poet Mihku Paul, whose poem “Afterlife” appeared last week.
Jason Grundstrom-Whitney’s use of archetypes in “Rock Bowl” brings a mythic storytelling aspect to the poem that is simultaneously universal and intimate. This poem is a vignette that evokes the land as relation through richly detailed language and the ceremonial behaviors of Bear, Raven and Coyote. The poem is both lament and invitation to imagine a deeper reverence for the earth.