Poetry: I Will Not Keep You

By E. Ann Baldwin, of Higganum. 

I Will Not Keep You

Words flow

pen writes

birthing the newness of

syllables garnered with left

hand and trying not to leave a

question of sorts.

My left hand is keeping diligent

pace across the cold press

paper of yore.

I do not fumble but move

slowly in time

adjusting the abandoned

cluster of chosen words.

Shout now! And I will see you…,,,,

About the Author: “I retired from the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts 1/21/21 after 20 years of teaching in the visual arts department. I have taught at Wesleyan Potters, Guilford Handicraft Center and Creative Arts Workshop all in visual and ceramic arts. I have been writing my poetry for some-teen years, and crafting/authoring 2 children’s books during my undergraduate work. On to illustrating them this year as well. I write/create almost every day.”

BFA Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
MALS Wesleyan University, Middletown CT
Penland Craft School, Penland, North Carolina

** Poem submitted for E. Ann Baldwin to HK-Now.com, by Haddam Poet Laureate Lorraine Riess.