I am full of forgiveness.
Tomorrow as I bend my middle over cardboard
tomorrow as I bend my middle
tomorrow I will speak to you again
bent through my middle.
I went to the woods last summer
I built a tent in the woods last summer
I open my arms in an empty intersection
I close myself through the middle.
Some people learn to work.
I wonder what they want.
I put all of my women in the tent.
All of my friends
we eat and eat in the middle
in the middle of the tent we eat forever
I open my arms in the empty tent
the woods are closed
tomorrow I will speak to you again
I am full of forgiveness
I want to learn to work
again my legs my cardboard skin
I want to go to the woods this summer
tomorrow I want to go.
Tomorrow I won't learn to work
again tomorrow I meet my women
we talk and it is effortless
we eat and eat my women and I.
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thank goodness!
ReplyDeletehi. hello. i taught the poem with all the good ladies lying down in the grass to one of my classes. they really liked it, and understood the different registers despite being kind of a mixed-level esl class. they were especially interested in the feminist content, the irony in both "good ladies" and "my sisters resisting."
ReplyDeletethank you.