The old woman across the way is whipping the boy again a nd shouting to the neighborhood her goodness and his wrongs Wildly he crashes through the elephantears 5 pleads in dusty zinnias ID: 482928
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The WhippingThe old woman across the way is whipping the boy againand shouting to the neighborhood her goodness and his wrongs.Wildly he crashes through the elephant-ears, 5 pleads in dusty zinnias,while she in spite of crippling fat pursues and corners him.She strike and strikes the shrilly circling boy till the stick breaks 10in her hand. His tears are rainy weather to woundlike memories:
My head gripped in bony vise
of knees, the writhing struggle
t
o wrench free, the blows, the fear
worse than blows that hateful 15
Words could bring, the face that I
no longer knew or loved…
Well, it is over now, it is over,
and the boy sobs in his room, 20
And the woman leans muttering against
a tree, exhausted, purged –
a
venged in part for lifelong hidings
she has had to bear.
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)