Elisavietta ritchie biography examples
She teaches writing workshops for adults and children, serves as occasional poet-in-the-schools, and has lectured to teachers on this program....
Elisavietta Ritchie
IN TRANSIT
Coming from somewhere else
at any age, even in utero,
you're never sure
your feet touch the soil.
Your whole life you hover--
hawk, helicopter
or fat dirigible, fearful
someone might poke a hole,
light a match--
You hang in there, up there,
wondering will they finally
grant permission to land
or forever challenge your passport,
check your fingerprints,
discount your money, question
could you survive as a stranger?
Best stay suspended,
forget the keys to the town.
Here, the air is dangerous, cold,
wind currents tricky, but
God, what a view.
INUA "The Eskimos believed that the inua of an animal enjoyed being hunted with a beautiful implement." Fitzhugh, National Geographic, Vol. , No. 2, February The spirit of the walrus his own father's tusk the beauty of the tool |