April 15, 2023_Laundromat Poetry

by Lenska

Poetry to read in the laundromat and poetry to read somewhere else:

• Rimbaud does well on the plane.

• Japanese poets in my special chair, total silence in the house. Wind outside.

• Nietzsche under a tree in a meadow bordering a forest. Not too many people around.

• Sappho at my desk, background music fine, especially anything with plucked strings.

• Diane Seuss late at night.

• Feminist writers in bed before I fall asleep. No, it’s not sexual. I need a lot of pillow support when I steer towards being a woman and a writer. I need all the reasons and all the support to pay the price and to accept a laurel every now and then.