In Women Like Us What Id The Kitchen Poem
Woman, I wish I didn't know your name.What could you be? Silence in my house& the front yard where the dogwoodwouldn't make up its mind about flowers.Aren't you Nature? A stem cringing, half-shadowed beneath a torque of rain.I too am leaving. I too am half-spun.The other day near the riverI bent down & Narcissusturned his immaculate mouthaway, refusing to caressmy howls. Silence in the treesall around the shotgun house & that scentof cedar whenever I dream.I turn the light around on the ground,sweeping the red mud, holdingthe light like a rattler.
229 Responses. You don’t need to be a woman to respect woman you don’t need to be a man to respect and love man. I love women and I’m not a girl. Second of all, its not “religion people”. It’s not about religion.its about being faithful. All religion is, is paths to god and love to your brother and sister. The little kitchen poem that follows likely reminded Mom of her own wooden baking cabinet that stood against a wall in our farm kitchen. The white metal shelf that pulled out for rolling dough was decorated with blue squares in a sort of checkerboard pattern that I improvised to play games on as a youngster. A prevalent reading of mother! Is that it's a metaphor for creation, with Him as God, mother as Earth, the Man and Woman as Adam and Eve etc. Thus, in the metaphorical version of the film, the poem is gospel. From the adoration Ed Harris' Man has for the writer's previous work it could be anything, but due to its brevity the Ten Commandments or Lord's Prayer seems to be the most logical.
From The Poets In The Kitchen Summary
Like a hood ofpoison, fitted over my face. Cobrawoman, slicked with copperhead flutes.I too am fleeing.
Children Of The Sea Summary
My face bornin a caul of music. Bravado.The men come into the yard& pull all my clothes off,walk me into the house,into my own kitchen.Tell me not to saysay I'm wrong. It was like the moment when a bird decides not to eat from your hand, and flies, just before it flies, the moment the rivers seem to still and stop because a storm is coming, but there is no storm, as when a hundred starlings lift and bank together before they wheel and drop, very much like the moment, driving on bad ice, when it occurs to youyour car could spin, just before it slowly begins to spin, likethe moment just before you forgot what it was you were about to say,it was like that, and after that, it was still like that, onlyall the time.