Donations
By Margaret D. Stetz
January 15, 2023
January 15, 2023
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you are welcome
to my experiences if you’d like some for poems they’re yours on the shelf they’re all fading from endless exposure to light changing color grown sticky with layers of time there’s no complete inventory but here’s a small sample: the feel of a fall from the arc of a swing onto concrete (the lump on the head like a plum) the sound of of a man’s lungs clogging with cancer choking on air the sight of a windshield smashed into fragments mosaic of glass they’re not all as depressing as those help yourself to afternoons strolling through gardens and sitting on rocks by the sea to afternoons fragrant with love I am looking to downsize my memories (at my age, what good will they do me?) and Goodwill won’t take them the entire collection should either be used or carted away before I am only promise to put them in forms where they’re unrecognizable-- like a mourning dress cut up for dolls’ clothes a mortarboard tassel restrung as a pendant a hardcover book turned into a lamp |
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Margaret D. Stetz is the Mae & Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware, where she teaches courses that reflect the intersection of the arts. Recently, her poetry has appeared in A Plate of Pandemic, C*nsorship Magazine, Kerning, Mono, Review Americana, Rushing Thru the Dark, West Trestle Review, Hare’s Paw, Existere, Literary Cocktail, Dark Matter, and other journals, as well as in the Washington Post.
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