Feed Your Head
Every once and a while you need to go visit Patti Smith’s website.
I really like the entry photo that is up now.
Here’s a poem currently up on the coffeebreak page…
April 18, 2007
TARA
She stood by the door
of her Virginia farm
pulling a sweater on
the branches
of the dogwood
she had tended
were bowed
blossoms loosened
tossed in sudden snow
the deer stood
in mute wonder
by her garden’s edge
she slipped the phone
in her pocket
her daughter
unharmed
among
petals gone
she snapped
a branch
a tempest stalled
she felt the boy
she felt the dead
she felt the families
she felt the wind
the deer don’t do that
she said
the deer don’t do that
Patti’s new album, Twelve - a collection of cover songs, will be released on Tuesday. You can preview her version of “Gimme Shelter” on her MySpace page.
