You’re asking me
to tell the world.
You’re asking me to undress
in the face of a monsoon.
You’re asking me to find words
in a single song – of a wound.
Not possible.
I’m a banana with black spots,
a contrapuntal to Bartok,
a winter pruning
of Bizet’s Carmen,
Stravinsky’s Firebird,
Daphnis et Chloe’ – sans Ravel.
I am a sliced Pomegranate.
Yet, I would grant you this:
in its fullness –
the fountainhead nested
within Appalachian Spring
sheathes me.
Naked, I am not.
Susan H. Robbins found her poetic voice during a moment of still after decades of wandering. Her poetry is published in and print/online. Susan is founder/host of a literary, music, theater and visual arts salon, (www.RhythmandVerseSalon.com) – created in the tradition of intimate, renowned salons of 17th – 20th centuries.
*Appalachian Spring is an American ballet created by the choreographer, Martha Graham and the composer, Aaron Copland
