LANGSTON HUGHES TRIBUTE ISSUE
Susan R. Williamson
NO HELP FOR IT
You’ve always
known we might
be found out,
every bright eye
in the dark heavens
awake, on watch—
each embrace a wall
laden with stars,
fired by Saturn rings—
revelations, sunspots
and glares troubling
earth’s lazy weathers.
There are great storms
indicated in the charts,
celestial shudders, silent
cries that arc the graph.
Even the moon listens,
reflects back—softly
sounds it out—as a child
utters a new vowel.
I could never
turn away now.
Susan R. Williamson
is a poet and administrator who divides her time between Charlottesville,
VA, where she serves on the advisory board of Streetlight Magazine,
and Boca Raton, where she is assistant director of the Palm Beach Poetry
Festival. Her work has been published in The Virginia Quarterly
Review, StorySouth, Lumina, Eclipse,
The MacGuffin, and the anthology Letters to the World
(Red Hen Press, 2007). She has been a Virginia Center for the Creative
Arts fellow, and is currently a Joel Oppenheimer fellow at New England
College.
Published
in Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 2011.