Susan Spear
Lilac Gowns
No pleasantries. Six women wait, alone.
Unalike save for the clinic gown.
One taps her toe, a sandaled metronome.
One quickly flips through Time, her head bentdown.
A wall of water dives through pastel green,
Inside a room of vulnerable breasts.
One fears she has a cancer gene,
A heartbreak that her history suggests.
One remembers infants' greedy lips,
Mornings half-asleep and milk-white nights.
They all recall their lovers' fingertips
And conjure scenes of jeopardized delights.
They breathe the common air. They wait. They turn
Away from eyes that mirror their concern.
Priorities
I graded essays from last week;
We made a quick trip to the store.
You read John's Gospel in the Greek;
I mopped the hardwood kitchen floor.
You sat and paid the bills on-line;
I placed clean t-shirts in your drawer.
You organized your books, then mine;
I sent a message to the kids.
You tied the fence with baling twine;
I matched containers to their lids.
You sorted clothes to get rid of;
We double-checked our eBay bids.
We've finished all the chores above.
What's that? You're bored? We could make love.
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Mezzo Cammin is proud to announce the third anniversary of The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline Project, which will be celebrated on Thursday, March 21, from 6:00-9:00 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, as part of its PAFA After Dark series and in affiliation with its exhibition The Female Gaze. Featured readers will include Rachel Hadas, Marilyn Nelson, and Sonia Sanchez. Also performing will be singer Suzzette Ortiz and poets from the Philadelphia Youth Movement. The event is open to the public.
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| Jean Shin: Much of my work is site-specific, establishing a dialogue with not only architecture and outdoor spaces, but also the communities that inhabit and activate them. By reinserting used, familiar materials back into the public realm, I invite a large, diverse audience to bring their own histories to the work. Through these encounters each installation forms its own imagined community, revealing new associations and meanings for ephemera, and speaking to our shared experiences.
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