March 8, 2007

  • I Stop Writing the Poem – Tess Gallagher


    to fold the clothes.  No matter who lives
    or who dies, I’m still a woman.
    I’ll always have plenty to do.
    I bring the arms of his shirt
    together.   Nothing can stop
    our tenderness.  I’ll get back
    to the poem.  I’ll get back to being
    a woman.  But for now
    there’s a shirt, a giant shirt
    in my hands, and somewhere a small girl
    standing next to her mother
    watching to see how it’s done.

    -  Tess Gallagher
    “I Stop Writing the Poem” from Moon Crossing Bridge.

    Happy Woman History’s Day – We have come a long way but still have a long way to go!

     

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