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Poem
LOST IN POEM-LIGHT
by
Lynne Thompson
Jane Hirshfield
don't drop by anymore--
not since the day I passed round
odes as hors d'oeurves,
poured sestinas on the rocks.
They sadly shake their heads & whisper:
"When did she disappear
into that shimmer of poem-light?"
Even when the random invitation issues,
my hosts all quake with fear
that I'll corner the guest of honor
chanting ghazals for an hour
or terrorize their children
with tropes and terza rima.
My family's worried, too;
I hear that they are planning
to lock me up with my pantoums
and to shun me for my sonnets but
I'm planning a poetic escape to States
where poems gallop naked astride a naked horse,
to pledge allegiance to a Country where Wild's
the language that's spoken every day.
Lynne Thompson is a human resources
manager at UCLA. Her salary supports her poetry "Habit."
She has work forthcoming in THE INDIANA REVIEW,
LOUISIANA LITERATURE and the new San Francisco-based journal,
RUNES.
You can reach her at pmsmalley@aol.com.