Kristine's Found Poems

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Found poems

From The New Yorker magazine, February 23, 2009

The purpose of literature

is to renew

the language of the tribe.

essay on D. Barthelme by Louis Menand

The greatest gift of feminism

is that I can choose

the kind of life I want to live.

It does not mean that,

because I can have it all,

I am less of a woman

if I do not want to have it all.

Letter to the editor, Nannette Petersen

When he got to his hut,

he discovered

that his father was still wandering

and had taken the only candle.

This made him feel younger.

At home,

he was still afraid of the dark.

essay on the poor of Mumbai “Letter from India"