Poetry: Women by Louise Bogan
Women have no wilderness in them, They are provident instead, Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.
Women have no wilderness in them, They are provident instead, Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.
The moving sun-shapes on the spray, The sparkles where the brook was flowing, Pink faces, plightings, moonlit May,
Some of the documents that came today Were fastened with beautiful staples The color of dayflowers For me who had known not
To make layers, As if they were a steadiness of days:
When you have forgotten (to bring into Play that fragrant morsel of rhetoric, Crisp as autumnal air), when you