Repair Your Mind! ... The Reluctant Housewife by KATHLEEN O'HARA PODZIMEK
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KATHLEEN O'HARA PODZIMEK
The Reluctant Housewife


Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Gentle, virtuous woman

Humble, pliable, unselfish

Meek, subservient, lowly
Overwhelmed by husband, children

No drugs, no exercise, no joy

Babies, love, babies, love, babies, love

Long-suffering martyr
Depressed, self-effacing, desolate

Loving, warm, miserable
Nasty husband, overburdened

Sleep, sleep, sleep

No style, passè, obsolete
Plain home, lousy cook

Sloppy, untidy, dirty

Sleep, sleep, sleep

Soiled body

Redeemed by Alzeimers
Couldn't take it
Look closely at how the expected tenderness falls slowly apart, as do so many relationship, when we take on a ROLE rather than live the experience. -JH

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Awarded Dec 2001


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DAVID HARRIS
Warmth

A stony winter sky
frames
a world of bare trees
and dirty snow

last week's ice crystals
crunch underfoot
as she exhales
white clouds of mist

She craves
warmth

A bitter morning chill
penetrates her skin
and on this day,
she feels
her winter is eternal

She craves
a burning ember
blooming into roaring flame
to thaw her body

She craves
springtime and the awakening
of the dormant earth

She wants
the heat and light
from a thousand candles
to dispell her gloom

From the corner of her eye
she spies a source
of what she desires

Clouds of smoke
drift
from a distant chimney

She wanders
toward the promise
of a blazing fire

Hope blooms within her;
filled with purpose,
she trudges though grimy slush
and breathes deeply in the frosty air
heading homeward.

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David Harris comes to PoetryRepairShop via an inviation from 024Wendy L. Hammond. Look for more of his poetry in upcoming issues. Copyright
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