Cromwell News This postcard comes to you from Cromwell Road, where I spent the better part of an hour, aimlessly turning the racks which displayed photographs of Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Big Ben, Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Kensington Palace, Prince Albert Hall, Victoria and Albert Museum, The National Portrait Gallery. I coveted the over-priced water, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘London’
Poem #6
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cromwell News, London, Lynn, postcards on April 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Prose Poem #4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged British Museum, London, Lynn, prose poem on April 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The British Museum Collected in one place, the history of Britain’s plunders: Elgin marbles, Egyptian mummies, Darwin’s finches, and maps of unknown territories. Here, my skin qualifies as the cartographer’s terra incognita. I pay two pounds for a cup of tea and cry quietly as I imagine the topography of your palm, rivulets, valleys, plains. [...]
Prose Poem #3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged clouds, Kew Garden, London, Lynn on April 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Kew Gardens The flowers are orchids and the clouds look like unruly children chasing each other across the blank lawn of the sky. The real children behave, sitting neatly on benches eating crisps, not spilling or crying. I traipse through the Japanese garden just to feel further displacement, the way the Ginko trees must feel [...]
Prose Poem #2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged British Library, London, Lynn, postcards, Sylvia Plath on April 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The British Library Sylvia Plath, you could not know how the black ink would pierce my heart, for I am a mother too or surely you would not have written such things. Now I understand the weight of motherhood and London and such longing as not even words can convey. You are here, nestled among [...]
