Retain the Light
And it is song toward gemstones,
gemstones wild with heat and their prolong
as song remembers kinds of kindness we the Lavenders
and all the other sighing, shyest women winking,
blinking off the cruel travails of plunder near
the central sudden sea of being where
we as singers claim, maintain, retain
the light of harbor hope and home for those alone
until we sing and bring about
the bluest, azure helpful sky to sigh the light,
reply by night and dawn.
© Marjorie Becker
Bio: “I am a Macon, Georgia native, a professor of history and English at USC. I am fortunate enough to be the author of eight books, three of which are poetry collections, including The Macon Sex School: Songs of Tenderness and Resistance. My poetry and critical theory have been widely published, and I am one of the founding members of the Venice Poetry Collective.”
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