I am reading Becoming the Villainess by Jeannine Hall Gailey. So many poems in this book I just adore and I love the feminist edge. I am planning a poetry unit for my high school students around poems in the book. Still in the works right now, but hopefully my girl students, especially, will feel empowered by the poems.
Here is a poem from the book:
PLAYING SOFTBALL WITH PERSEPHONE
She throws that heavy globe
so that it sinks in the dirt
a gash in semisoft mud
around the shoe-crushed wildflowers
and the gnats ring her hair like a crown.
She looks right at me while she drinks Gatorade,
pulling her sweaty bangs up over her face
and her eyes like a whole field of forget-me-nots.
The ball rolls forward and she grabs it,
squeezes it like a ripe pomegranate, almost takes a bite,
then wipes her mouth on her dusty arm.
Here is a poem from the book:
PLAYING SOFTBALL WITH PERSEPHONE
She throws that heavy globe
so that it sinks in the dirt
a gash in semisoft mud
around the shoe-crushed wildflowers
and the gnats ring her hair like a crown.
She looks right at me while she drinks Gatorade,
pulling her sweaty bangs up over her face
and her eyes like a whole field of forget-me-nots.
The ball rolls forward and she grabs it,
squeezes it like a ripe pomegranate, almost takes a bite,
then wipes her mouth on her dusty arm.
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