Poet Laura (Riding) Jackson is probably more famous for her renunciation of poetry than for her writing of it. In 1938, her Collected Poems was published when she was only thirty-seven, though she lived another fifty-four years, twenty of them without publication at all.
Tooth and Bag
Nora wears a girdle on the outside of her dress. It’s her back brace.
Come out among them and be ye different.
Wears panties on her head to keep her Pentecostal hairdo in place.
The Demise of the Sea
SEA DEMON
and the sea too means nothing
and the sea too is a round o
and in vain does man hop
into the deep from guns and blades
Even Donkeys
I honor the light and the dark inside you.
What do you honor?
How much would you give me to eat this?
Crewel
“Responsibly” I embroider some “nerves” (this nervous orderly, from the basement upstairs at midnight:) not now, nor have I ever been a responsible worker since “hungrier” is an attribute (he has to clean her light-producing organs) of appetite exhaling warm blue light as she embroiders
The Impossibility, Part III
But then one morning I thought I saw her again. I was walking along a street near my apartment carrying a bag that contained three warm pastries or, rather, two and one-half warm pastries – I had already started eating one of them. It had a light, sweet glaze that would have gone well with steamed milk, and I was vaguely touching the tip of my tongue to the center of my upper lip and feeling very happy, thoroughly contented, perhaps even a little smug, when I saw her again, or thought I did.
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