Untitled 11-6-05

by Caligula's Launderette

Published November 6, 2005

In Poems

She speaks with every woman's
mouth, bending words and
wisdom

love hides underneath pressed
linen in her dark cedar chest
festering and growing
tired

she doesn't touch the lock
she placed on her heart long ago
when crushed dust filled her
lungs

opening her mouth she devours
herself whole in the process of finding
peace

Comments & reviews · 2
Twinkling Starz wrote a review Review · Nov 7, 2005

I don't like the last stanza much, the image there disgusts me, but I think it's a good ending, good work.
I would have to say that the first stanza was my favorite. It really opened up the poem, and I think overall this was great.
A good title for this, if you are looking for one, would be "She".

Well done, good work.

-*Twinkles



The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.
— Edward Hirsch