Pratik : PRATIK LA SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE HIGHLIGHT: American poet GAIL WRONSKY's poem, "Conspiratorial We"

Sunday, January 16, 2022

PRATIK LA SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE HIGHLIGHT: American poet GAIL WRONSKY's poem, "Conspiratorial We"

GAIL WRONSKY

Conspiratorial We

Hammers and fingernails withheld

Even in the midst of frenzied days and envies

Insolent sun which moves behind mountains

to caution the edges of our eyes

Mouths which nothing can out-die

Under the disordered dusk, through mysterious windows

We meet and conspire, bathe our daydreams in gin

So much said already in the twilight

We are alive, but do not demand much of it

We don’t believe in anything but ghosts

We don’t question people badly dressed in mourning

Under the heavy heel, we are alive and weightless

Under the capsized boat we fly

Gail Wronsky is the author, coauthor, or translator of thirteen books of poetry and prose, among them Dying for Beauty (Copper Canyon), Poems for Infidels (Red Hen), and Imperfect Pastorals (What Books). Her translation of Alicia Partnoy’s book, Fuegos Florales (Flowering Fires) recently won the American Book Prize from Settlement House Press.

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