BY indefiniteloop


indefiniteloop.com - Haiku No. 24 - At It, Always.



This one is inspired by today, and the poem below. The poem is… feminine. Especially when it’s ending. The advice I perceive from it though… is more gender equal. Here’s to making all our shadows have substance!

“Solar Eclipse” by Diane Glancy.

Each morning
I wake invisible.

I make a needle
from a porcupine quill,
sew feet to legs,
lift spine onto my thighs.

I put on my rib and collarbone.

I pin an ear to my head,
hear the waxwing's yellow cry.
I open my mouth for purple berries,
stick on periwinkle eyes.

I almost know what it is to be seen.

My throat enlarges from anger.
I make a hand to hold my pain.

My heart a hole the size of the sun's eclipse.
I push through the dark circle's
tattered edge of light.

All day I struggle with one hair after another
until the moon moves from the face of the sun
and there is a strange light
as though from a kerosene lamp in a cabin.

I pun on a dress,
a shawl over my shoulders.

My threads knotted and scissors gleaming.

Now I know I am seen.
I have a shadow.

I extend my arms,
dance and chant in the sun's new light.

I put a hat and coat on my shadow,
another larger dress.
I put on more shawls and blouses and underskirts
until even the shadow has substance.

- Diane Glancy - Aniekee Tochukwu

Haiku No. 24 - At It, Always - by indefiniteloop.com





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