"Today, however, I’d like to challenge you to write a self-portrait poem in which you make a specific action a metaphor for your life – one that typically isn’t done all that often, or only in specific circumstances. For example, bowling, or shopping for socks, or shoveling snow, or teaching a child to tie its shoes."
Curate
To curate a museum
asks much of the curator.
She values the smallest things,
for every detail is most important among details.
Steadiness is a must
to write with an accurate hand,
or tend eggs with the stuffed robin's exact care.
The storage room, a hub of reliable order
(apiarist's suit, pinned A. mellifera, beeswax candle)
and bewitching chaos
(birdless foot, arsenic dust, moldering paper)
suspended in "creative process."
History is her business;
she looks ahead
only with purpose.
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