[stylist] Poem - "Waitress" - Final Draft
Chris Kuell
ckuell at comcast.net
Sat Jun 27 16:30:54 UTC 2015
Hi Bill,
I like this one as well. Like Rowena, on my first read I went to the holy
Google to ask what an oasiscamel was--and low and behold--my question was
answered.
And speaking of questions, I only have one--why did you end the line: Such
gifting strength? With a question mark? It seems like a statement or
observation to me.
Regardless, nice job.
Chris
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*Waitress *
(in memory of Nadine "Granny" Jackson)
Plates like galaxies braced
on her arm, she brings our eats.
It's craft she's gained from her thousands
on frayed carpet.
Breakfast crowds, dinner guests
all are arrayed
in their booths, a chorus
of murmurs arising like
prayer, her feet singing ows.
We dine, declaim, and coffee
drink like oasisingcamels.
Arriving, unhoped for
fulfillment, she pours and pours,
a prophetess fountain.
such gifting strength?I'd never
hold:my smile would
fail like dustbowl crops.
Waitress, lady, Grandmother
Deep: take twenty percent
and know I know
what suffering is, and what
it costs. O rest your
broken, faithful feet,
and bathe in hotrelease,
and bone revived
or husband held,
embrace your war-won sleep.
--
"Oh, Sophie! Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"
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