The Fat White Woman Speaks
(An answer to Frances Cornford)Why do you rush through the fields in trains,
Guessing so much and so much
Why do you flash through the flowery meads,
Fat-head poet that nobody reads;
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(An answer to Frances Cornford)Why do you rush through the fields in trains,
Guessing so much and so much
Why do you flash through the flowery meads,
Fat-head poet that nobody reads;
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
He never spoke a word to me,
And yet He called my name;
He never gave a sign to me,
And yet I knew and came