by: Lavinia Greenlaw
air carries the taste
of ocean-going liners
shadows of Canada geese
colour the salt grass
water trickles inland
suggests the threat of nesting swans
black Essex mud
refuses to take shape
I can live with this promise
that nothing is in place
but everything is here
“I can live with this promise
that nothing is in place
but everything is here”
— Lavinia Greenlaw, “Estuary”
(if anyone can tell me which collection of hers this is from, i’d be so, so grateful!)
I need feminism because…
(1) Guys still think it’s 100% acceptable to grab my ASS in clubs and then shrug and smile as if it’s a compliment.
(2)...
“When you’re a girl, you never let on that you are proud, or that you know you’re better at history, or biology, or French, than the girl who sits...
at Jardin du Luxembourg
Like the old phoenix which, the more it got
Burnt up, (recycling its own stuff, no doubt,
For it did not burn down) the more it grew—
Although no...
