Museworthy: Your Pen & Mine

The epiphanies are rushing together
The epiphanies of poverty
Of light and emptiness and the mass of life
That remembers itself
In the square of your childhood village

The sunflower's head is too heavy
For its beauty
Catastrophes are falling to earth
I remember only a dusty little town
Where there is nothing to say
People talk

Repeat me

This pen and that pen
Will not unwrite the horrors of creation
This pen and that put them down
And do something worthwhile

BY MTC CRONIN

MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry published, the most recent being Bestseller (Vagabond Press, 2001) and My Lover's Back — 79 Love poems (UQP, 2002). After being employed for most of the 1990s in law, she has in recent years begun teaching literature and creative writing at secondary schools and universities. She is currently working on a PhD, Poetry and Law: Discourses of the Social Heart. Her books are available by contacting her at <margie_cronin@hotmail.com> or phone (02) 9550 2918.

From Green Left Weekly, July 24, 2002.
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