A Poem From The Year

“Grass Fingers” by Angelina Weld Grimke:

Touch me, touch me,

Little cool grass fingers,

Elusive, delicate grass fingers.

With your shy brushings,

Touch my face—

My naked arms—

My thighs—

My feet.

Is there nothing that is kind?

You need not fear me.

Soon I shall be too far beneath you,

For you to reach me, even,

With your tiny, timorous toes.

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(From Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology © 2014 by Robert Hass and Paul Ebenkamp. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint Press. Photo by Kitty Terwolbeck)