(For Cecilia Vincent)
She wasn’t afraid of angina.
She wasn’t afraid of the buzz-saw
carving through her ribs:
just fix it, she said.
She wasn’t afraid of lazy brain:
give me a jigsaw, she said.
She wasn’t afraid of loneliness:
just love me, she said.
While everyone else
was fixing and giving and loving
she dragged her life from under the bed
and made it dance again.
— Rachel McAlpine, 29 July 2006
Image: poster of Rosie the Riveter, Wikimedia, Creative Commons licence.
She wasn’t afraid of the buzz-saw
carving through her ribs:
just fix it, she said.
She wasn’t afraid of lazy brain:
give me a jigsaw, she said.
She wasn’t afraid of loneliness:
just love me, she said.
While everyone else
was fixing and giving and loving
she dragged her life from under the bed
and made it dance again.
— Rachel McAlpine, 29 July 2006
Image: poster of Rosie the Riveter, Wikimedia, Creative Commons licence.
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What a nice poem to finish the evening with! Love the poster too!
ReplyDeleteDepicts what human courage can achieve!
ReplyDeleteShe inspires me too!
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