Housebound (Jacquelyn Pope)

Like in the poem by Jacquelyn Pope, I too have been house bound today. It's the observed day for Cesar Chavez, so it's been a no-work day for me. Cool, no? And speaking of cool, today's poem has it in spades.

I love that this poem is so repetitious and that the lines don't break in boring ways. It's her talent that I don't stumble over the lines even though they don't break where I would expect them to.

It such fun to read. I bet it wouldn't be quite as fun if I were just hearing it without seeing it. The line breaks make this poem for me. They really do.

Favorite line: "You've made your bed they said / now you must lie in it lean / down the length of it sink"