Welcome to Poem of the Week, an annual feature on this blog that celebrates National Poetry Month. Every Sunday, in the month of April, start the week off with an uplifting poem and discovery why poetry still matters.
The world is currently chaotic and tumultuous. But poetry can still provide us comfort and solace. Poetry is such an amazing and inspirational genre to take part in, and National Poetry Month is excellent for discovering its powerful impact. So let these words move you…you will not regret it.
I’ll conjure the perfect Easter
& we’ll plant mini spruces in the yard—
my pink gloves & your green gloves
like parrots from an opera over the earth—
We’ll chatter about our enemies’ spectacular deaths.
I’ll conjure the perfect Easter
dark pesto sauce sealed with lemon
long cords of fusilli to remind you of my hair
& my pink gloves. Your gloves are green
& transparent like the skin of Christ
when He returned, filmed over with moss roses—
I’ll conjure as perfect an Easter:
provolone cut from the whole ball
woody herbs burning our tongues—it’s a holiday
I conjure with my pink-and-green gloves
wrangling life from the dirt. It all turns out
as I’d hoped. The warlocks of winter are dead
& it’s Easter. I dig up body after body after body
with my pink gloves, my green gloves.
cup of tea with that book, please
Copyright Credit: Kiki Petrosino, “Witch Wife” from Witch Wife. Copyright © 2017 by Kiki Petrosino. Reprinted by permission of Sarabande Books, Inc.
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