Strangers

By Annie Finch b. 1956 Annie Finch

She turned to gold and fell in love.

She danced life upside down.

She opened her wild eyes again

and asked some strangers in.

The strangers felt her in and out.

They found her outsides thin.

Since her heart was still and hard,

they knocked her insides in.

Reprinted with permission of the author and Story Line Press.

Source: Eve (Story Line Press, 1997)

Biography

Annie Finch is the author or editor of fifteen books of poetry, translation, and criticism, including the trilogy of poetry collections Eve (1997), Calendars (2003), and Spells, and the long poems The Encyclopedia of Scotland (2002) and Among the Goddesses: An Epic Libretto in Seven Dreams (2009). Calendars was shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award, and Eve reissued in the Carnegie Mellon Classic . . .

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