so, i'm writing a research paper on amelia earhart.
...while researching, i found this rather lovely poem. i really just love it.
it's by kate timmers, and it's called
Beginnings
In a Kansas schoolhouse in 1938
a girl in gingham
will draw a picture of me, winged,
a breasted mock-Icarus
plummeting into the sea.
She gives me long hair.
Why the wings don't save me I don't know.
In this version, as in all, I crash.
No one lets me defy
gravity, not even in chalk
on a slate. Millennia of myths
prevent it, prevent upturned heads
from searching the skies instead
of the beaches and the waters
devouring them. Therefore
with this end let us begin.
3 comments:
Did she write it in reference to Amelia?
Okay-cool! I decided to Google Kate Timmers; when I did, your blog came up eighth on the list:-)
heh heh! that's funny. actually, i'm not surprised...i found the poem in some strange periodical/newspaper research database that i was using through chesapeake college. they have a subscription or something. it's probably illegal for me to re-post it... i don't even know... mmh. heh. oh well. i'm just sharin' the love! :)
--yes yes, she did write it in reference to amelia.
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