tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833681172246292916.post47071617226337980..comments2024-02-18T02:16:45.800-08:00Comments on GRACE PALEY: Pressing the Limits of Action: DeeDee Halleckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082147300122950343noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4833681172246292916.post-85069801603242861832016-12-11T12:10:28.700-08:002016-12-11T12:10:28.700-08:00Oh how I miss Grace...Just imagine what words of w...Oh how I miss Grace...Just imagine what words of wisdom she would have given us in these particularly terrible times! Blessed be her blessed rebel tongue and whatever words are still circulating....I just posted one of hers today (it was at NPR the <br />writers Almanac)<br />I was going to write a poem<br />I made a pie instead it took<br />about the same amount of time<br />of course the pie was a final<br />draft a poem would have had some<br />distance to go days and weeks and<br />much crumpled paper<br /><br />the pie already had a talking<br />tumbling audience among small<br />trucks and a fire engine on<br />the kitchen floor<br /><br />everybody will like this pie<br />it will have apples and cranberries<br />dried apricots in it many friends<br />will say why in the world did you<br />make only one<br /><br />this does not happen with poems<br /><br />because of unreportable<br />sadnesses I decided to<br />settle this morning for a re-<br />sponsive eatership I do not<br />want to wait a week a year a<br />generation for the right<br />consumer to come along<br /><br />"The Poet's Occasional Alternative" by Grace Paley from Begin Again.Ms.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09479767121319709878noreply@blogger.com