"Tibet" by Agata Rogalska-Topa

When the muse comes to visit,
I show domestic routine the door.
Let the dog cry to go out,
let the dishes pile up in the sink,
let my mate wonder why
there are no clean socks.
This day I will not be married
to a man but to the whole singing earth!
There's not an ant crawling up
a blade of grass that I won't notice.
I will loaf in the sunshine,
with no thought pressing me onward.
I will feel life pulsing
from the earth,
and taste each moment clearly.
I will dance through my garden
with cosmos in my hair,
and when my husband asks
"What's for dinner?" I'll laugh.

This is a day for eating
tomatoes right off the vine:
this is a day for telling
the "Angel in the House"
to go straight to hell.

Bio: Anne Lusby-Denham has been published in anthologies such as We Used To Be Wives: Divorce Unveiled Through Poetry, 2001: a di-verse-city odyssey (anthology for the Austin International Poetry Festival), and Shenandoah Poets. Composer Lawrence Moss of University of Maryland set several of her poems to music in the dance drama "Dreamscape." Her poetry has also been included in Public Hanging, a gallery show combining art and poetry. She recently participated in the Poets Against the War poetry reading in Washington, D.C. and lives in Falls Church, Virginia.

Contact Anne Lusby-Denham at unitypoet@mindspring.com