It's National Poetry month and I urge you to check out this post of Kay Byer's. Her poem sequence "Searcher" has been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize and she shares two poems from the work.
Years ago in England, a searcher was a woman employed to check bodies before burial to ensure that they had been clothed in English wool cloth, rather than in prohibited foreign goods.
Kay takes this dark material and weaves a deeply-felt and beautifully-imaged web of words.
Years ago in England, a searcher was a woman employed to check bodies before burial to ensure that they had been clothed in English wool cloth, rather than in prohibited foreign goods.
Kay takes this dark material and weaves a deeply-felt and beautifully-imaged web of words.
But that's what poets do.
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