Margaret Hasse's "Day after Daylight Savings Time"

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

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Margaret Hasse (born 1950, in South Dakota), is a poet and writer who has lived and worked in Minnesota since graduating from Stanford University in 1973. Three of her collections of poems have been published: Milk and Tides (Nodin Press, 2008), In a Sheep's Eye, Darling (Milkweed Editions, 1988), and Stars Above, Stars Below (New Rivers Press, 1984.) Milk and Tides was a finalist for a 2009 Minnesota Book Award and won the Midwestern Independent Publishers' Association award in poetry.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Daily Poem. I'm Heidi White, and today is Monday, March 14th. And say I'm going to
0:08.1	read for you a poem by American poet Margaret Hassee. She's a contemporary poet. She's been publishing poetry
0:15.4	since the 1980s. She's published five books of poetry. And she is also an editor and a poetry teacher and a mentor.
0:25.7	And today's poem is called Day After Daylight Savings, and this is how it goes.
0:32.1	Blue numbers on my bedside clock tell I forgot to change the hour.
0:40.8	This sets routines on haywire.
0:48.2	Like a domestic goat state to its circle of earth, I don't do well untethered. I have no hunger for early dinner, become confused by the sound of children who seem out too late for a school
0:53.9	night.
0:54.9	They've found an extra helping of daylight to romp on new grass and can't contain themselves.
1:01.0	Strip off jackets, scatter like a rag of ponies.
1:05.1	Whatever time says, their joy insists on springing forward.
1:12.2	I like this little poem. I like this little poem.
1:14.6	I chose it obviously for the very good reason that it is literally two days after daylight savings.
1:23.1	And so I wanted to find something.
1:30.9	And on the surface, this poem is just very straightforward, right?
1:46.6	It is a reflection on the disequilibrium that this narrator is experiencing as a result of the out-of-cilture hours and its impact on her and on her family. And so it's a little bit funny. There's also a kind of a lurking sense of melancholy and you can hear a bit of her
1:52.3	irritation and that sense of disequilibrium. She's just a good job of capturing that specific
1:59.2	experience.
2:08.0	And lurking under the surface, there's also a reflection on the nature of time itself and of change and a dissonance between our expected routine and what we want out of that.
2:20.4	And then this kind of relentless moving forward of the seasons, whether it's the time changing or our children growing up and changing before our
2:28.6	eyes and insisting, as poem says, on experiencing joy, springing forward into joy. And so there's melancholy there.
2:38.7	There's also, like I said, a sense of dissonance internally and some sadness over the change.
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