Sue Chenette
Sue Chenette wrote the documentary poem What We Said, about her first-hand experiences as a social worker
during Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. Her latest collection, Clavier, Paris, Alyssum, is due out this fall.
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Sue Chenette
Making Soup in January
December 2013
A kind of violence
required —
thwack of knife on cutting board,
sweet potato’s tough flesh split,
onion chopped to tears
Pohk — the can opener’s
cranky circuit
liberates chick peas,
highlighting a need
for colour: green
pepper to wake
an eye, dispel
sluggishness — oh, logy
as a sleep-drugged…
Sewing Song
June 2013
My grandmother pinked all the seams,
protecting them with zig and zag
from an unravelling of the weave.
She taught me how to set in sleeves,
face a collar, match a plaid.
But above all insisted I pink the seams
that season of patterns and gabardine
so no dress would have a ragged edge
from an unravelling of the…