written yesterday afternoon for Collie McClellan. Shes doing a - TopicsExpress



          

written yesterday afternoon for Collie McClellan. Shes doing a Spoleto piece on violence against women. Arethusa: for Collie by Wm. Baldwin April 2014 In margin of a creek thick with stubbled marsh and iris she tried to hide. In the quickening river’s bend where forgotten logs spin end to end she tried again to hide. Until at last through narrow caves the current carves in ways harsh and dark she with help went free. Held in a hand, raised to lips, there is beauty in transparency. But in the naked and pursued where is beauty? Yet through pursuit, terror’s shape is known to her and through her binds itself into itself a harmless knot beyond undoing. For today she is the sunlit waters of this fountain/ She is the communal waters of this fountain. She is in and of this village fountain. And may the women find here what is stolen, be it child or portion of themselves, be it this, the mere corner of a smile. /
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:58:57 +0000

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