Women – Page 6 – That Terry

Translations – Adrienne Rich

November 30, 2012August 8, 2020 Author

You show me the poems of some woman my age, or younger translated from your language Certain words occur: enemy, oven, sorrow enough to let me know she’s a woman of my time obsessed with Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls baked it like bread in our ovens worn it like lead on our ankles watched it through binoculars as…

The Cycle Continues – Lidwina Bautista

November 29, 2012August 8, 2020 Author

I see her — a small, brown woman pushing a baby carriage behind a white woman; sadness envelopes my heart, weep I say will my weeping free her or console her? I see their passive faces wanting to disappear and hide their faces educated women, forced to flee the poverty and bleak future at home. I wonder what she is thinking fear of people…