Museworthy: Silence and its Answer

Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 11:00

Museworthy


Museworthy: Silence and its Answer


The uprooting of words

took place here

in the country with no tongue

The most silent of plants

grows here

It is an animal

that turns its belly

to the blade

and faces with the heart's generic face

the flower that bears the cold,

the absence which remains

after every replacement

I am the animal,

the plant,

the silence

Where might I bleed from

to impress your fifty words for wound,

your language of blood?

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: or
phone: (02) 9550 2918.

From Green Left Weekly, March 13, 2002.

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From GLW issue 484