These are the poems you should read and write two thoughtful comments about this week. The Cabbage by Ruth Stone Story by Philip Larkin Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me by Mary Oliver The Widow’s Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams
To discuss thoughtfully: Love by Pablo Neruda What’s wrong with you, with us, what’s happening to us? Ah our love is a harsh cord that binds us wounding us and if we want to leave our wound, to separate, it makes a new knot for us and condemns us to drain our blood and burn […]
The Hymn of a Fat Woman. Read and discuss here .
Not Swans by Susan Ludvigson I drive toward distant clouds and my mother’s dying. The quickened sky is mercury, it slithers across the horizon. Against that liquid silence, a V of birds crosses-sudden and silver. They tilt, becoming white light as they turn, glitter like shooting stars arcing slow motion out of the abyss, not […]
Because You Left Me A Handful of Daffodils by Max Garland I suddenly thought of Brenda Hatfield, queen of the 5th grade, Concord Elementary. A very thin, shy girl, almost as tall as Audrey Hepburn, but blond. She wore a dress based upon the principle of the daffodil: puffed sleeves, inflated bodice, profusion of frills […]