Saturday, 7 August 2021

Magdalene by Marie Howe

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Marie embodies Mary Magdalene in these poems, responding to the constraints that historical imaginations have placed around her, and showing us instead a lively and rounded person.


I have tagged so many of the poems, I can’t retype all of those...



On Men, Their Bodies is a clever poem, reducing the men to “One penis was...” in a way that so often society reduces women.




Calvary


Someone hanging clothes on a line between buildings,


someone shaking out a rug from an open window


might have heard hammering, one or two blocks away


and thought little of nothing of it.




What the Silence Says


I know that you think you already know but -



Wait



Longer than that.



Even longer than that.

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