SATURDAY NIGHT JUDY GRAHN POEM 13 NOVEMBER 2010

(Judy Grahn, January 1988, Oakland CA, photo by Robert Giard)

I'm starting a new weekly feature here at Meta Watershed: Every Saturday evening I will post a Judy Grahn poem. Much of her best work is already up here (check Labels to the right for her name) but there is still a wealth more to share. If she'd been a straight white man, they'd have declared her poet laureate a long time ago -- but then she wouldn't be writing the stunning language that she does.

Love came along and saved me saved me
Love came along and after that
I did not feel like fighting for
anything any more after all
didnt I have not that I had
anything to speak of
OR keep quiet about
but didnt I have
company in my nothing?
someone to say You're Great, to shout you are
wonderful, to whisper to me you are my every little thing?
& then one day Love left to go save someone else.
Love ran off with all my self-esteem my sense of being
wonderful and all my nothing.
now i am in the hole.

© Judy Grahn, published in The Work Of A Common Woman

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