Anna Roseboro is our host at http://www.ethicalela.com today for Day 12 of #VerseLove, inspiring us to find our birth poets. I loved her nod to a line from Gorman in her own poem today – we must be the light. And I’m rather convinced that’s the only way to change the world. I found Angela Williams, who wrote the poem Almost Savages – born in northern Michigan – and born on the same day and same year as I. I chose to write a Golden Shovel with this striking line: small fish will scatter away from my steps.
Anna Shines the Light
Here’s to you, Anna Small
Roseboro! Words glimmer like tiny fish
in your sunlight as each of us will
put pen to paper, fingers to keys, scatter
in all directions far and away
searching, learning, writing from
the heart of our birth poets- my
same-day-and-year poet and I shared first steps
Common Threads 