Amanda Gunn — Ordinary Sugar
Poetry Unbound
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Sugar Is Poisoned to My Arthritic Knees
This is a poem that to my mind suggests memories of what it was like to be a child, but written from the point of view of somebody who's a little bit older now. I feel like this is a poem in praise of poetry too, because this is somebody that's taking words and words that do deal with some difficulties, putting them into something absolutely delicious to say. There's sweetness in these words, there's a reclamation almost to say that in the midst of things that were taken away, these forebears of mine knew what it was to speak about sweetness.
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