Bloggers (silent) Poetry Reading

Second Annual Brigid in Cyberspace Poetry Reading

WHAT: A Bloggers (Silent) Poetry Reading
WHEN: Anytime February 2, 2007
WHERE: Your blog
WHY: To celebrate the Feast of Brigid, aka Groundhog Day
HOW: Select a poem you like - by a favorite poet or one of your own - to post February 2nd.

Intrigued by the thought of helping create a cyberweb of poetry. (You can thank me later for not inflicting poetry of my own into space!)

From my most favorite writer, my daughter...

After Training Wheels

brooklyn

unseasonable january saturday

black non-deadbeat non-absent father

in stocking cap and overstuffed jacket

trails daughter on bike

hand bracing her small of back

pushing then lifting then letting go

she collapses at the bottom of the hill in heap

later leaving the park

I see the family homing, too,

father up ahead carrying the pink and purple bike

with its gay betraying streamers

little girl scowling

glowing old kneepads over jeans

scunned palms

mother calling out from behind,

insisting to those closed ears,

listen

that’s

how you learn!

~Stephani Nola~