Poetry Month – Marge Piercy’s “A Work of Artifice”

I used to teach Marge Piercy’s “A Work of Artifice” as a wrap-up for Ibsen’s A Doll’s House; it fits really well, I think.  Click on the title above to read the full text of the poem.

Here is a taste:

“Every day as he
whittles back the branches
the gardener croons,
It is your nature
to be small and cozy,
domestic and weak;
how lucky, little tree,
to have a pot to grow in.”

“A Work of Artifice” appears in Circles on the Water.  Buy it locally!

And check this out if you use iTunes.  So cool.