amending-death: lesbianherstorian:“want” from cold river: poems by joan larkin, october
amending-death: lesbianherstorian:“want” from cold river: poems by joan larkin, october 1997 [Image description: text of “Want” by Joan LarkinShe wants a house full of cups and the ghostsof last century’s lesbians; I want a spotlessapartment, a fast computer. She wants a woodstove,three cords of ash, an axe; I wanta clean gas flame. She wants a row of jars:oats, coriander, thick green oil;I want nothing to store. She wants pomanders,linens, baby quilts, scrapbooks. She wants Wellesleyreunions. I want gleaming floorboards, the river’sreflection. She wants shrimp and sweat and salt;she wants chocolate. I want a raku bowl,steam rising from rice. She wants goats,chickens, children. Feeding and weeping. I wantwind from the river freshening cleared rooms.She wants birthdays, theaters, flags, peonies.I want words like lasers. She wants a mother’stenderness. Touch ancient as the river.I want a woman’s wit swift as a fox.She’s in her city, meetingher deadline; I’m in my mill village out latewith the dog, listening to the pinging wind bells, thinkingof the twelve years of wanting, apart and together.We’ve kissed all weekend; we wantto drive the hundred miles and try it again. End ID.] -- source link