Showing posts with label Gary J. Whitehead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gary J. Whitehead. Show all posts

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Lot's Wife (Gary J. Whitehead)

Easter approaches, so a biblical poem (by Gary Whitehead) will be for today's post.

It's a lovely poem that tells of what happened next as Lot and family leave Sodom. Some great phrasing, but it's a simple tale of what people do after disaster. Look and see and shift through.


I like how ordered the poem is - all those tercets. The last, single line seems a bit superfluous. I think it's there to be a bit of a gotcha, bam! And, of course, to throw in that seal-the-deal last Biblical reference. It's kind of cheap, but the rest of the poem is so strong I don't mind it much. 

Favorite line: "her head turned back as if in longing to be the girl / she had been in the city she had known."