HEROINES’ LETTERS:
The Altar
Kathleen Gilbert: a homophonic translation of George Herbert
A spoken halter, cord, thighs serving tears,
Traded apart and demented with fears;
Woozy arts carve thighs banded shame;
Go beserk, you fool, wrath much in vain.
Apart zone
Touch the moan
Ask not gut
Thigh coward much
Bear tore these arts
Oft far apart
Meat the same
A phase a game;
Drat my dance to all may cease
We moan to raise freedom feast
Holy thighs messed sacked rice divine
Hand hanked the halter hoopy wine
Award winning poet Kathleen Gilbert received an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State in 2013, after retiring from a career in public transportation. She has been interested in the Classics since taking Latin in high school and at the University of Rochester studying with N.O. Brown. Her work has been published in Transfer, The Best of the Steel Toe Review and online at Swampwriting. Her first book, Just Us Chickens, is available at Amazon.
