For Southern Women

Time was the voice of poets, she declared,
coming to rest in the shapes and sounds

of wildwood flowers, hidden in the late
mowing of a harvest’s movable nest.

Girls in the midst caught glimpses
of blackened shawls descending,

of poets cooking with light.

. . . . .

Poet: Susan Powers Bourne
Source: Women.Poets.Georgia
Work titles by Bond and Byer
Process: Pick and mix cento