Saturday, September 07, 2013

My poem - Never look back woman - from 1993 -



Transitions

Never look back woman all your bridges
nearly burned behind you
you may be turned to salt stone
salt from caked up tears a pillar
like a plaster cast holding me immobile rigid
spine broken needing to be reset
naked underneath –
my head turned backwards
south southeast
permanently.

Fragment - copyright Kyi May Kaung

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--I have a volume of her short stories--which I like a great deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala