#Americans #Objectivist #Women #ArsPoetica
Ten thousand women and I the only one in boots Life’s dance:
I married in the world’s black night for warmth if not repose. At the close—
The wild and wavy event now chintz at the window was revolution . . . Adams to Miss Abigail Smith:
You are my friend— you bring me peaches and the high bush cranberry you carry my fishpole
Nothing worth noting except an Andromeda with quadrangular shoots— the boots of the people
Well, spring overflows the land, floods floor, pump, wash machine of the woman moored to this low sh… Goodbye to lilacs by the door and all I planted for the eye.
Mr. Van Ess bought 14 washcloths? Fourteen washrags, Ed Van Ess? Must be going to give em to the church, I guess. He drinks, you know. The day we m…
What horror to awake at night and in the dimness see the light. Time is white mosquitoes bite I’ve spent my life on nothing.
And the place was water Fish fowl flood
Popcorn—can cover screwed to the wall over a hole so the cold can’t mouse in
I rose from marsh mud, algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs to see her wed in the rich
My friend tree I sawed you down but I must attend an older friend the sun
In the great snowfall before the b… colored yule tree lights windows, the only glow for contemp… along this road I worked the print shop
He lived—childhood summers thru bare feet then years of money’s lack and heat beside the river—out of flood
My mother saw the green tree toad on the window sill her first one since she was young. We saw it breathe