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Five Poems That Interest Me
Five Poems That Interest Me
Tear
By Linda Hogan
It was the time before
I was born.
I was thin.
I was hungry. I was
only a restlessness inside a woman’s body.
Poems
By Nikki Grimes
I am hardly ever able
to sort through my memories
and come away whole
or untroubled.
It is difficult
to sift through the stones,
the weighty moments and know
which is rare gem,
which raw coal,
which worthless shale or slate.
So, one by one,
I drag them across the page
and when one cuts into the white,
leaves a trail of blood,
no matter how narrow the stream,
then I know
I’ve found the real thing,
the diamond,
one of the priceless gems
my pain produced.
“There! There,” I say,
“is a memory worth keeping.”
Pre 20th Century
The Ocean
By Nathaniel Hawthorne