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| my, un-orderly cupboard, empty white bowls included. |
I was an English major decades ago (only two!) back in college, and poetry classes were some of my favorites. Now here I am two degrees later and in nursing school at a community college, at the same time falling in love with poetry all over again.
I have two definites on my list of poems I will memorize. How many do think we can squeeze into our brains in one month? So far, I have one by William Carlos Williams and a Shakespeare sonnet. When I was looking up insights to my WCW poem online this morning, I stumbled upon this poet, Laura Kasischke.
Kitchen Song
by Laura Kasischke
The white bowls in the orderly
cupboards filled with nothing.
The sound
of applause in running water.
All those who've drowned in oceans, all
who've drowned in pools, in ponds, the small
family together in the car hit head on. The pantry
full of lilies, the lobsters scratching to get out of the pot, and God
being pulled across the heavens
in a burning car.
The recipes
like confessions.
The confessions like songs.
The sun. The bomb. The white
bowls in the orderly
cupboards filled with blood. I wanted
something simple, and domestic. A kitchen song.
They were just driving along. Dad
turned the radio off, and Mom
turned it back on.
I like the simplicity, the imagery, the way the darkness is there whether she wants it to be or not.
I immediately felt a kindred spirit to this woman in Michigan, sitting perhaps at a desk near a window writing. I wonder what color her kitchen is?
-Melissa
4 comments:
Beautiful Poem, thank you for sharing.
hello there - first of all, this is an awesome blog, i found it through your comment on the TED talk about trying something new for 30 days..
I wanted to gift you a poem that I memorized immediately after I heard it for the very first time, I was so taken by it. Some might see it as somewhat dark but I think it is awesome how the rhyme works.
It's by robert frost.
Some say the world will end in fire
some say in ice
for what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire
but if it were to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
to know that for destruction ice
is also great
and would suffice.
I look forward to seeing how this goes : )
Good luck with that!
Hi Anonymous! After you posted this comment my blogging partner Melissa sent me an urgent text from her pych 101 class (and she's an A student).
Well I hope if this blog ever perishes it goes up in flames.
What did Elie Wiesel say...something like the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
Thank you for sharing this poem. I'm adding it to my memorizing acquisitions database.
Firstly, thank you SO much for commenting! and sharing that lovely poem. Anything somewhat dark is always welcome here. Afterall, life can be dark, why ignore it and pretend it isn't there.
Secondly, I texted you while on a break, Amy :) I mean, not that I wouldn't, it's just that this teacher specifically is looking out for it.
peace, Melissa
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