 "APPLE" copyright 2006 by TOM ROMERO
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NamingApple! He tastes the syllables
Wanderers in the Museum of
In the beginning was the Word
Truth? |
or mirage?
God, Jehovah, Supreme Being, Almighty, Everlasting, Eternal, King of Kings, Creator,
Originally published in Lotus Blooms, 2004; Poetic Voices Without Boarders, Gival Press Anthology, 2005
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Marian writes:
There I was, captive wife at one of those banquets of endless speeches welcoming or honoring people I didn't know. Looking for anything of interest to keep me awake I gazed upward—and there, looking down from every wall of the large converted basement museum room were Buddhas and Botthisatvas, of every sort and century, their eyes gazing out in
tranquil empathy. At that moment, on scraps of paper in my evening bag,
the first lines of this poem took their first breaths.
Born in 1939 in the Bronx, Marian Kaplun Shapiro practices as a psychologist and poet in Lexington, Massachusetts. The author of Second Childhood (Norton, 1988) and many professional articles, she returned to writing poetry five years ago. Her poems have appeared in forty-three journals and three anthologies, and have won five first prizes and six other prizes. Her chapbook, Parenthesis, appears on the website of Language and Culture: www.languageandculture.net, and she can be reached via email at: mkshapiro@rcn.com.
