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Readings for September 11, 2020: American Literature
1. Sonnet: The Ladies’ Home Journal (1984)
By Sandra Gilbert
The brilliant stills of food, the cozy
glossy, bygone life –mashed potatoes
posing as whipped cream , a neat mom
conjuring shapes from chaos, trimming the flame-
how we ached for all that,
that dance of love in the living room,
those paneled walls, that kitchen golden
as the inside of a seed: how we leaned
on those shiny columns of advice,
stroking the thank yous, the firm thigh, the wise
closets full of soap.
But even then
we knew it was the lies we loved, the lies
we wore like Dior coats, the clean-cut airtight
lie that laid out our lives in black and white.
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2. Ellis Island
By Joseph Brochac
Beyond the red brick of Ellis Island
where the two Slovak children
who became my grandparents
waited the long days of quarantine,
after leaving the sickness,
the old Empires of Europe,
a Circle Line ship slips easily
on its way to the island
of the tall woman, green
as dreams of forests and meadows
waiting for those who’d worked
a thousand years
yet never owned their own.
Like millions of others,
I too come to this island,
nine decades the answerer
of dreams.
Yet only part of my blood loves that memory.
Another voice speaks
of native lands
within this nation.
Lands invaded
when the earth became owned.
Lands of those who followed
the changing Moon,
knowledge of the seasons
in their veins.
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