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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE IN SWEETWATER.(Poem)

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From: Poetry
Date: 20010901
Author:DUNN, STEPHEN

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.

Abraham Lincoln

 
   It wasn't exactly freedom that she felt 
   when she found herself on this northern lip 
   of the Mullica, a woman who somehow had gotten 
   to the other side. More like amazement, 
   and then the kind of loneliness the suddenly alive 
   experience when they realize 
   no one else can know what they've known. 
 
   Birds were twittering. A strong wind 
   ruffled the maples. The sun glinted 
   off the water like ... sun glinting off water. 
   She couldn't think of a single ...

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