Found poetry by Cathleen Allyn Conway
Are You Missing Something?
Focusing our telescope, we debate and deliberate:
The writer should move about the world,
keep away from creative energies waste.
Criticism and encouragement are the most important.
Contact with men men men, stars of the first magnitude.
We’ve even taken the shirt off their backs!
Write his sensations and feelings, bewitched by evening blue.
The astronomic versatility of sweaters!
We’re stargazers this season, failed poets.
Something to Write Home About
In line with the fashion for girls in boys’ clothing,
how much does $25 buy? Anyone for action?
Because a little piece of yourself goes into everything.
You’ll be going steady in this man-tailored shirt
featuring a man’s neckband and collar.
Here, with a poet’s bow, tailored to your taste,
perfectly mated, up to its neck in tucks stroked
with quotable lines in a coat – the exclamation point
writes excitement with ink black kid!
New tone poem colorings in minx mode
for after-dark larks, steeped in the classic
manners of tweed: travel light, morn ‘til night.
The influence of living on a PM to AM basis.
Hickory dickory dock... she tip-toed in at one o’clock!
Place the body. Spread that skirt as wide as you want it.
Source: both poems come from articles by Sylvia Plath in Mademoiselle magazine, August 1953.
Focusing our telescope, we debate and deliberate:
The writer should move about the world,
keep away from creative energies waste.
Criticism and encouragement are the most important.
Contact with men men men, stars of the first magnitude.
We’ve even taken the shirt off their backs!
Write his sensations and feelings, bewitched by evening blue.
The astronomic versatility of sweaters!
We’re stargazers this season, failed poets.
Something to Write Home About
In line with the fashion for girls in boys’ clothing,
how much does $25 buy? Anyone for action?
Because a little piece of yourself goes into everything.
You’ll be going steady in this man-tailored shirt
featuring a man’s neckband and collar.
Here, with a poet’s bow, tailored to your taste,
perfectly mated, up to its neck in tucks stroked
with quotable lines in a coat – the exclamation point
writes excitement with ink black kid!
New tone poem colorings in minx mode
for after-dark larks, steeped in the classic
manners of tweed: travel light, morn ‘til night.
The influence of living on a PM to AM basis.
Hickory dickory dock... she tip-toed in at one o’clock!
Place the body. Spread that skirt as wide as you want it.
Source: both poems come from articles by Sylvia Plath in Mademoiselle magazine, August 1953.
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Cathleen Allyn Conway is a creative writing PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the managing editor of Plath Profiles, the only academic journal dedicated to the work of Sylvia Plath, and the founding editor of poetry webzine Thank You For Swallowing. Her pamphlet Static Cling is available from Dancing Girl Press. She lives in London with her partner and son.
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