Archive for February, 2009
Fourth Annual Silent Poetry Reading for the Feast of St. Brigid
Monday, February 2nd, 2009The Firebombers
by Anne Sexton
We are America.
We are the coffin fillers.
We are the grocers of death.
We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.
The bomb opens like a shoebox.
And the child?
The child is certainly not yawning.
And the woman?
The woman is bathing her heart.
It has been torn out of her
and because it is burnt
and as a last act
she is [...]
