Angela Topping
Angela Topping Poems
Whether to cry out in answer to
My father’s strangled cries
as he shifts bricks above my head,
or whether to keep silent, holding back
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The New Generation
Wizards look like everyday folk
despite what you’ve been told.
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We were spies on her world -
her safe house of skin. She
was etched in silver: moving, human.
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Madison Square Gardens had never seen a mermaid.
Now, here she was, so far from home she’d never go back.
Stitched into the dress, a cage around her flesh, so tight
there’s no mannequin in all America could fit in.
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She sits and briskly knits, her needles clack,
and grimly add the seconds of her life.
Her head is bent so she won't see his chair
whose vacancy insists 'no longer wife.'
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Today my kids are skipping
over your threshold and you not here.
The ones you never dandled,
pronounced prodigies: My kids
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Angela Topping Biography
Married with two daughters. Has worked in education but now freelance writer. Published widely for both children and adults, though I do not really see a big distinction between these audiences. I love working with children and giving readings.)
The Best Poem Of Angela Topping
After The Earthquake
Whether to cry out in answer to
My father’s strangled cries
as he shifts bricks above my head,
or whether to keep silent, holding back
this dust with clamped lips. I lie
sealed in and cannot choose.
If I speak, death will steal my breath
seeping in at the mouth;
if I choose silence he may go away
and weep, and never know how close
my grave or how I longed to answer.
Someone flutes powder from my face.
I feel warm breath. My eyelids move:
Their flutter fills my eyes with grit.
Weight lifts from my chest and arms
and inch by inch I live again.
In my father’s arms
I cannot find strength to haul up
words from my darkness.
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4/25/2024 4:11:55 AM # 1.0.0.1119
All these poems are well worth reading. I liked After The Earthquake best but they are all very good. Can we have more poems on ehre, Angela?