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Upon Hearing Angela Bofill on The Cassette Recorder
Tell Elizilda so.
If I did it clumsily
the first time,
I mean to do it better
next time.
I must have read the wrong lines.
She could have read
what wasn’t there between the lines.
We could have even missed our cues.
It was nobody’s fault, though.
We can do the script again, can’t we?
And this time, I’ll be sweeter.
Reprinted from the Weekly WOMEN’S Magazine
(Editor’s Note: Rendered in the modern idiom, the poem is EM’s exciting way of probing the nuances of love, the same theme that gave birth to the immortal Shakespearean sonnets, Basho’s haikus, William Butler Yeats’ “A Deep-Sworn Vow,” and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee?”)
