The Hand The Page The Trowel The Pen The Spoon
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Each sturdy white-haired woman whom I see.Every June flower whose name I do not know.
Blossoms turn their faces to the sun.Across the gulf
I execute your gestures, I becomethe hand the page the trowel the pen the spoon
and all the flowers whose names I don't rememberif I ever knew them. You did. You
knew many of the answers. I must doquestion and answer now
and execute your gestures and becomeanother white-haired woman in the sun. [End Page 265]
RACHEL HADAS's verse translations of Euripides' two Iphigenia plays will be published in June, as will her latest collection of verse, Poems for Camilla. The author of many books of poetry, essays, and translations, Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, where she has taught for many years.
