Hurry
by Marie Howe
We stop at the dry cleaners and the grocery store
and the gas station and the green market and
Hurry up honey, I say, hurry,
as she runs along two or three steps behind me
her blue jacket unzipped and her socks rolled down.
Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave?
To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown?
Today, when all the errands are finally done, I say to her,
Honey I’m sorry I keep saying Hurry—
you walk ahead of me. You be the mother.
And, Hurry up, she says, over her shoulder, looking
back at me, laughing. Hurry up now darling, she says,
hurry, hurry, taking the house keys from my hands.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Британишский – На берегу
- The Merchant of Copan [In English and Spanish]
- All Night In Savannah The Wind Wrote Poetry
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Отторженность
- The Lighted Window by Sara Teasdale
- The Unchanging by Sara Teasdale
- As Toilsome I Wander’d. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Grace After Meat:
- holiday_letter_for_a_poet_gone_to_war.html
- The lords above by Michael Nikoletseas
- Gadara, A.D. 31 by John Oxenham
- Новелла Матвеева – Я, говорит, не воин
- Нина Пикулева – Ой, да чья ж это девчушка
- Владимир Корнилов – Одиссей
- Николай Глазков – Баллада о трактористе и ритуальном камне
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
