Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-day

Poem haunted by the sound of a long e

I’ve never been able to tell this story.
I was wooed by my favorite writer in 1990.
We met in the faculty lounge of her university in the city.
She offered me three free years of writing poetry.
She tried to charm me as I ate my meal silently.
I didn’t say my boyfriend had begun behaving violently.
I didn’t say I was carrying what might become a baby.
I didn’t want to be the kind of person who inspired pity.
I never thanked her for the opportunity.
It wouldn’t be the last time he hit me, although I left him eventually.
After the procedure, the report: female, no genetic abnormality.
For decades, I wouldn’t think about what might have been, if only.
The poems I might have written. And the girl. Her body.
An animal that’s trapped will do what’s necessary.

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Kerry Sherin Wright

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Title	Author	Date
The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. “across the surface of my studied speech”	Remica Bingham-Risher	02/17/2023
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An Act of Love	Tommye Blount	02/15/2023
Wetland	francine j. harris	02/14/2023
Love Poem Attempt 3/?	Taylor Byas	02/13/2023
Challenge	Sterling A. Brown	02/12/2023
The Venus of Milo	Henrietta Cordelia Ray	02/11/2023
When I See the Stars in the Night Sky	Joy Priest	02/10/2023
Aubade: Nocturne	Willie Lee Kinard III	02/09/2023
Love Poem in the Black Field	Ariana Benson	02/08/2023

Title

Author

Date

The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. “across the surface of my studied speech”

Remica Bingham-Risher

02/17/2023