I want to walk like I’m the only
woman on earth and I can have my pick.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: culture, defiance, gender, Kim Addonizio, repetend
And these are my vices:
impatience, bad temper, wine,
the more than occasional cigarette…
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: Cecilia Woloch, confession, dark humor, defiance, gender, imagery, poetry
My lines and life are free ; free as the rode,
Loose as the winde, as large as store.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: defiance, George Herbert, lyric poetry, mystic, religion