[Poetry Friday] Woman of Mystery in Angelina Weld Grimke’s “A Mona Lisa”

Fats here.

In celebration of our theme — Fearless Females, Courageous Women — I’m sharing an excerpt from a poem written by Angelina Weld Grimke. This poem, entitled A Mona Lisa, is part of Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology.

Many thanks to Irene Latham of Live Your Poem for hosting the Poetry Friday round-up!

Modernist Women Poets

Editors: Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp
Publisher: Counterpoint Press (2014)
ISBN: 978-1-61902-110-5

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A Mona Lisa

I.

I should like to creep

Through the long brown grasses

That are your lashes;

I should like to poise

On the very brink

Of the leaf-brown pools

That are your shadowed eyes;

I should like to cleave

Without sound,

Their glimmering waters,

Their unrippled waters,

I should like to sink down

And down

And down . . . .

And deeply drown.

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May your weekend be full of surprises!