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whenever you write it, whenever it comes out,
the age in your armpits in the pleats of your crotch,
the faded perfumes of cherished conversations,
and the toilet gurgling its ecologues, resurrecting names
in its hoarse swiveling into an echo after.
This is the music of memory, water.
("Sea Grapes" from "Collected Poems 1948-1984," copyright 1986 Farrar Straus Giroux. "I'm just a red nigger . . . " comes from the poem "The Schooner Flight" in the same book. The last lines quoted here are from "The Prodigal," copyright 2004, Farrar Straus Giroux.)
Mary Karr has published four books of poems, most recently "Sinners Welcome."
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