Poetry Reading

Poet & IRSC teacher William Kemmett hosts
a poetry reading at the Fort Pierce Main Library,
usually once a month.

One by one take our place behind the podium
(odd word, that)
reading poetry or reciting one
so well-loved and oft-spoken one woman
knows it by heart. Rhyme, free verse,
makes us laugh or think or tear up.
Clothes come off (metaphorically), then skin,
as strangers hear the words, shared life,
trace flow of blood through veins,
witness muscles contract,
relax, and down we sit again.


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2012