Tags
amwriting, angry woman, confessional, labels, Mary Oliver, poem, Robert E. Howard, Sylvia Plath, woman
They had to call it something. Everything has a label, has to have a label otherwise it cannot be understood?
Things cannot be as they are, they must be classified and microfisched for further review by busybodies who write the law.
I wanted an MFA tag, but that’s fruit from the Tree of Knowledge (of)
I refused to pay the price.
‘stead I carry pomegranates in my apron
I never share them because that would be truth-telling, that would be
the real deal.
Who wants to hear more sylvia plath confessionals
yet another unhappy woeman
writing names in the sand
counting down?
I would rather have been Mary Oliver in the end
some kind of smooth stone you keep in a mason jar
or a sassy fawn named for a childhood friend
the one who still carries the North star
or better,
a body carved with hieroglyphs of the sea
wrapped in a Robert E. Howard shroud, epically
or simply
e e cummings
free