Wintering ~ Sylvia Plath This is the easy time, there is nothing doing. I have whirled the midwife’s extractor, I have my honey, Six jars of it, Six cat’s eyes in the wine cellar, Wintering in a dark without window At the heart of the house Next to the last tenant’s rancid jam and the […]
I wrote the first draft of this in August 2017. We were in Helsinki for a conference the first time that P45 started a public argument with Kim Jong Un. Unable to sleep, I found myself wondering what we would do if the unthinkable happened, and there was no US to fly back to at […]
He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved ~ William Butler Yeats Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair, And dream about the great and their pride; They have spoken against you everywhere, But weigh this song with the great and their pride; I made it out of a mouthful of air, […]
Prayer for a Friend ~ Clementine Von Radics This struggle we are struggling isn’t ours alone. We did not invent loss. We are not the first to have vows smashed with a bitter hammer. But god, You have been battling your pain with bare-knuckle fists for days and I just wish I could fight for […]
This seems a suitable poem to post on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. If They Come in the Night ~ Marge Piercy Long ago on a night of danger and vigil a friend said, why are you happy? He explained (we lay together on a cold hard floor) what prison meant because he had done […]
