Museworthy: Life, Related to 'Bread'

Museworthy: Life, Related to 'Bread'

Today
that man's sister, his wife,
two of his
three children?
a new path.

The small boy
rescued from the pyre
he feeds with
bits of bread.

Despite pain
there is no question:
These are your lives!
These are your people!

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, August 21, 2002.

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From GLW issue 505