text: Poetry Friday: "This Most Perfect Hill" – Reading to the Core
  June 9, 2017 Catherine Flynn7 Comments
  I've been neglecting this blog lately, but as school winds down and I can (fingers crossed) devote more time to writing, I decided to dust things off a bit and offer you this most perfect poem by Lisa Jarnot.
  "This Most Perfect Hill"
  On this most perfect hill
  with these most perfect dogs
  are these most perfect people
  and this most perfect fog
  In this most perfect fog
  that is the middle of the sea
  inside the perfect middle of
  the things inside that swing
  In this most perfect rhyme
  that takes up what it sees,
  with perfect shelter from the
  rain as perfect as can be,
  In this most perfect day
  at the apex of the sun
  runs this most perfect
  frog song that is roiling
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  Lisa Jarnot, Poetry Friday, This Most Perfect Hill
  7 thoughts on "Poetry Friday: "This Most Perfect Hill""
  As I sit outside on a most perfect summer day and listen to the most perfect songs of birds and feel the warmth of my most perfect dog on my lap, I know that my words are most imperfect. Thanks for this poem today. Hope you'll be finished soon and will have time to relax.
  Oh, I wondered where this was leading us. Perfect ending. I. like Margaret, hope you have some perfect time for yourself soon!
  beautiful….most perfect, even. I love the sound clip of it. Wishing you a quick and good end of the school year.
  I love how tongue-in-cheek the poem becomes, just by its pairing of perfect and mud. What delicious skill that makes me smile, even as the repetition hits me between the eyes.
  I love the repetition of all things perfect in this poem. I hope you enjoy a most perfect day!
  Can't make it through this one without smiling! Thanks for sharing in your perfectly generous way, Catherine – Happy Summering!
  I like the windingness of this perfect poem, thanks for sharing it Catherine–I'd like to read more of Lisa Jarnot's poetry too!