She Who Carries Sorrow
Kim Roberts
The stars keep guard in the darkness.
She who carries sorrow,
even in drought,drowns all her promises.
Even she who carries water,in sorrow
dissolves her body,
its correspondences,its scars,
her ordinary body
in its warning hours of darkness.
Storm-starved,corn stalks with narrow arms
stretch heavenward,watching.
Kim Roberts, Is the editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly and author of a book of
poetry,The Wishbone Galaxy.She has published widely in literary journals
throughout the U.S,as well as in Canada,Ireland,France and Brazil.She is a
recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities,the
DC Commission on the Arts,and the Humanities Council of Washington,and
has been awarded writers' residencies at ten artist colonies.
Poem Courtesy
of "Only the sea
keeps: Poetry of
the Tsunami"
Picture:
HumanityAshore
