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Meet Virginia’s Poets Special from The Poetry Society of Virginia Vivian Teter, Professor of English at Virginia Wesleyan College, was recently awarded a writing fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Artemis, Poetry East, Black Warrior Review, Passages North, Green Mountains Review, and others. Pietà: For All the World to See (a 21st-century sonnet) A hill of rubble and ash, a sandal abandoned on the ridge and below, the father sits cradling his tall son, waiting. He did not look at the photographer from Oxfam. What’s the good of looking into the lens of another country? Here there is nothing to eat. So many children run the streets, left on their own. His son can no longer walk, his arms, legs, just skin over bone and he knows only he must hold the boy firmly. Unknown father, lonely in your grief and hopelessness: boundaries are now an illusion, and one answer to our vast emptiness, our strain of hunger, waits like an ancient seed, inside our answer to you. For information about The Poetry Society of Virginia, visit: www.poetrysocietyofvirginia.org, or write to: Poetry Society of Virginia, 213 DeWolfe Drive, Alexandria, VA 22308. |
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