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

Previous Poems

Title	Author	Date
Frost at Midnight	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	12/10/2011
To a Locomotive in Winter	Walt Whitman	12/09/2011
In drear nighted December	John Keats	12/08/2011
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97)	William Shakespeare	12/07/2011
There’s a certain Slant of light (258)	Emily Dickinson	12/06/2011
Approach of Winter	William Carlos Williams	12/05/2011
To the Roaring Wind	Wallace Stevens	12/04/2011
Earth Took of Earth	Anonymous	12/03/2011
Enemies	Dante Micheaux	12/02/2011
The Gardenia	Cornelius Eady	11/30/2011

Title

Author

Date

Frost at Midnight

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

12/10/2011