scarecrow poetics/essays

for Walt Whitman

Twenty-eight women bathe by the shore
Twenty-eight women
their breasts full
bellies round
skinny dipping

Twenty-eight naked women
dance on water
Twenty- eight women arise
from the dreams
of sea and shore

Lisa Williams © 2006.

Lisa Williams is a Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey, and lives in New York City. She is the author of Letters to Virginia Woolf and also The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf.

See this interview at RSB and this Scarecrow review.