The Fishwife Pin

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    The Fishwife Pin

    Without a voice,
    a voice to love,
    a pin I named The Haunt
    pricked viciously into
    withering rolling lumps
    that be came my brain.

    Again, and still
    the fishwife pin
    dips and dawdles.
    Reveals a longing
    shoveled over with mountains of festering fear.

    Harps strung silver,
    singular in their own sound,
    drift in and circle my heart
    so splintered it is
    singing miserable recognition.

    What was me
    has taken to streets,
    deadened in their places,
    forsaking courage
    for dusty roads
    trodden by my own feet cradled in denial
    I named Comfort.

    Without your voice,
    your voice to love me.
    I am alone.

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    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

    Rielle’s Poems (4)

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