Poet Jane Hirshfield said "... the feeling I have about poem-writing (is) that it is always an exploration, of discovering something I didn't already know. Who I am shifts from moment to moment, year to year. What I can perceive does as well. A new poem peers into mystery, into whatever lies just beyond the edge of knowable ground."
I bring a different poem to the writing classes each week, not only to inspire but to introduce new poets to the group members.
Family Portrait by Nancy Morejón
Women standing drawn in their dailiness the steam from the iron flowing towards the horizon Women of the family faces stiffened into an inherited sweetness in the portrait where the artist paces painting the calm water of their eyes eyes of the maiden or the silent mother blessed by the sound of white sheets flapping in the emptiness of a sharp breeze. Women fixed forever by a wise eye as wise as their hands that invent a happiness that life itself would deny them. ~ from Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Issue 81, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2010, 183-185