"After // my girls are in bed or while / they play in the sandbox and / my husband gardens, I rush / down the winding stairs of / relative mental health where / we live, where I talk, deny, / or compose poems."
— Sagaser, Elizabeth Harris
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Baton Rouge
Publisher
The Southern Review
Date
2000
Metaphor
"After // my girls are in bed or while / they play in the sandbox and / my husband gardens, I rush / down the winding stairs of / relative mental health where / we live, where I talk, deny, / or compose poems."
Metaphor in Context
Are they real? After
my girls are in bed or while
they play in the sandbox and
my husband gardens, I rush
down the winding stairs of
relative mental health where
we live, where I talk, deny,
or compose poems. I run across
the bridge, back to you
no longer existing, away
from the glut of snapdragons
by the door, Bach at his saddest
and most useful, the gifts
for sisters that would have been
for you, Good-bye, good-bye! I cry
in the ruins. Sometimes
(ll. 15-30)
my girls are in bed or while
they play in the sandbox and
my husband gardens, I rush
down the winding stairs of
relative mental health where
we live, where I talk, deny,
or compose poems. I run across
the bridge, back to you
no longer existing, away
from the glut of snapdragons
by the door, Bach at his saddest
and most useful, the gifts
for sisters that would have been
for you, Good-bye, good-bye! I cry
in the ruins. Sometimes
(ll. 15-30)
Categories
Provenance
Poem brought to my attention by the author.
Citation
Sagaser, Elizabeth Harris. "Sometimes." The Southern Review. 36:3 (Summer 2000). pp. 534-5
Date of Entry
01/19/2009
Date of Review
01/19/2009
