#Americans #Jews #Women
Baby-witch, my daughter, my worship of the Goddess alone condemns you to the fire. . .
Unable to bear the uncertainty of the future, we consulted seers, mediums, stock market gurus,
This is the dirty laundry poem– because we have traveled from town… accumulating soiled linen & sw… & blue-jeans caked & clott… & teeshirts crumpled by our gl…
Goddess, I come to you my neck wreathed with rosebuds, my head filled with visions of inf… my palms open to your silver nails… my eyes open to your rays of illum…
Rising in the morning like warm bread, from a bed in America, the aroma
A man so sick that the sexual soup cannot save him - the chicken soup of sex which cures everything: tossed mane of noodles,
In Autumn, as in Spring, the sap flows, the sap wishes to race against heartbeats
Here, at the end of the world, the flowers bleed as if they were hearts, the hearts ooze a darkness like india ink,
The poet fears failure & so she says “Hold on pen— what if the critics hate me?”
Because my grandmother’s hours were apple cakes baking, & dust motes gathering, & linens yellowing & seams and hems
Sweet muse with bitter milk, I have lain between your breasts, put my ear
I had pegged you as protégé, adoptee, someone I could save. The last thing I needed
When the devil brings him, like a Christmas puppy, examine his downy fur & smell his small paws for the scent of sulphur.
The lessons we learned here (fumbling with our lunchbags, handkerchiefs & secret cheeks of bubblegum) were graver than any
You are the first muse who came to… The others began & ended with… or a glance or a kiss between stan… the others strode away in the poin… or were kicked out by the stiletto…