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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MOON, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: Their footprints on her face Last Line: For women are, after all, only space. Subject(s): Earth; Snow; Women; World | |||
Their footprints on her face - you could tell they enjoyed marking her up. I have seen my son the same, a joy of sloshing galoshes across a brisk sheen of new snow. It's something in the male; they can't stand just openness. They have to put things into it - a flag, a rocket, a foot, any signature of their spore. Being female, I felt sorry for her. Not that it will make any difference to lovers and harvests and I do realize we may need her some day, a stepping stone for some new hypocrisy of hope as we put distance between ourselves and our latest botch of civilization. But did the deflowering have to be so public? Did we have to wave the bloodied sheet? Columbus was kinder. This is a very female point of view, I realize, foolish, even sentimental. But it hurt, woman to woman, to see their footprints on her face, for women are, after all, only space. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BROKEN BALANCE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS GEOMETAPHYSICS by MARGARET AVISON NIAGARA by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SOPHISTICATION by CONRAD AIKEN I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR by AGHA SHAHID ALI WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA by MARVIN BELL THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING by LUCILLE CLIFTON |
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