Drog for Teachers
Drog for Teachers
1. Activities before reading You Will Call Me Drog
2. Themes to discuss during and after reading
3. Metaphors to explore in You Will Call Me Drog
4. Activities after reading You Will Call Me Drog
5. Discussion questions by chapters click here
1. Activities before reading You Will Call Me Drog
2. Themes to discuss during and after reading
3. Metaphors to explore in You Will Call Me Drog
4. Activities after reading You Will Call Me Drog
5. Discussion questions by chapters click here
My Dog Has Flies
My Dog Has Flies
My Dog Has Flies
Sue Cowing
Poet & Author
Painting One Another
(Paula Modersohn-Becker)
By Sue Cowing
Papa, you're right about Paula,
she is dangerous. See here,
she won't have anything in me
but greatness. What a race this will be!
Watch how she walks
straight out in the storm, toes first,
hands cupping the air, the pull
of a swimmer. And I call after,
through my red beard.
Sometimes all I can do
is paint her, but she doesn't fit
into landscape. I'm obliged
to paint her her way,
close up in the garden,
intimate and large.
She looks straight at me
as I work and all I see
is my small figure in her eye.
I finish quickly: "Paula
with Yellow Immortelle," O.
Modersohn.”
Then for a lark
she paints me, too, taking me
from me into her own vision,
whose countenance above the wet, dark clothes
is turned toward the reddening
sun. Holy man of the moor
sees nothing, everything, endures.
"Otto Crossing the River Hamme," PMB.
It's my red beard she loves.
from Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1989