Hello Friends,
Today is Lesbian Visibility Day! We’re celebrating the Sapphics with a poem by Chaia Heller, which can be found in the anthology My Lover is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems edited by Lesléa Newman and published in 1996. Unlike yesterday’s poem, which nearly avoided punctuation altogether, today’s poem relies heavily on the specific curves of parentheses.
Enjoy,
Ællen
Today is Lesbian Visibility Day! We’re celebrating the Sapphics with a poem by Chaia Heller, which can be found in the anthology My Lover is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems edited by Lesléa Newman and published in 1996. Unlike yesterday’s poem, which nearly avoided punctuation altogether, today’s poem relies heavily on the specific curves of parentheses.
Enjoy,
Ællen
After Language
When all the drowsy metaphors
about women and fruit
have been peeled
and devoured;
there’s just you, me
a bowl full of summer peaches,
two parentheses
with nothing in between
(just space)
for the tongue’s imagination
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When all the drowsy metaphors
about women and fruit
have been peeled
and devoured;
there’s just you, me
a bowl full of summer peaches,
two parentheses
with nothing in between
(just space)
for the tongue’s imagination
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