1535: Flowers in the kitchen | Lemn Sissay
"Flowers in the kitchen"
Lemn Sissay
On buying her flowers
she said
"There's no food in the kitchen
and we can't eat flowers."
On buying her food
she said
"You don't buy flowers any more."
On this day in...
2011: "Teaching Mrs Dalloway I'm Thinking" by Wendy Barker
2010: "Our Skirt" by Kathy Boudin
2009: "Letter" by Natasha Trethewey
2008: Weekend, no poem
2007: "The Invitiation" by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
I thought of you and how you love this beauty,/And walking up the long beach all alone/I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder/As you and I once heard their monotone.
Lemn Sissay
On buying her flowers
she said
"There's no food in the kitchen
and we can't eat flowers."
On buying her food
she said
"You don't buy flowers any more."
On this day in...
2011: "Teaching Mrs Dalloway I'm Thinking" by Wendy Barker
2010: "Our Skirt" by Kathy Boudin
2009: "Letter" by Natasha Trethewey
2008: Weekend, no poem
2007: "The Invitiation" by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
I thought of you and how you love this beauty,/And walking up the long beach all alone/I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder/As you and I once heard their monotone.