Red Cloth
Red cloth I lie on the ground otherwise nothing could hold I put my hand on the ground the membrane is gone and nothing does hold your place in the ground is all of it and it is breathing
Credit
Copyright © 2009 by Jean Valentine. Originally published in The Nation. Used by permission of the author.
Author
Jean Valentine
The author of many collections of poetry, Jean Valentine has received such honors as the National Book Award, the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Date Published
01/01/2009