The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 1/26/2008) [View All]

[RetroLounge]

Fertility

They say women are born
with a finite number
of sentences in them
but like eggs in Rube Goldberg's
gangly machines
they still wobble out of us,

fill the whole way down
with suspense.

Some days mine stay
buoyed in the thin air
between tasks, then
end up silent run-ons,
their mascara running,
their bodies frozen
just to the right of the stage.

Speak them all we won't
and thank god for that.

Reflect and linger
under our eyelids?
I’m afraid they will. Every last
one of them, like water's
light on a wall.

Twilight Greenaway

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Twilight Greenaway received an MFA from the Warren Wilson program in 2005. From 2000-2005, she served as the editor of WireTap, a national online magazine. Her poems have appeared in Caketrain and H_NGM_N. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she currently works on promoting viewer-created content by young people for Current TV.

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:hi:

RL