Three Poems by George Elliott Clarke
Verses Adapted from Sor Juana de la Cruz258. Maitines de la Asunción, Mexico, 1679, & xxxviii. Maitines de la Asunción, Puebla, 1681….–As the sour voice of the sacristanCollared the pews, corralled the church,Two Guinea madonnas—bronze, not wan—Veered therein, premised for God to search….-Each princess, so uncommonlyComely and coherent, could notSubmit to the sermon, onlyValidate humours polyglot,-Interrogating both priests and nuns—Those…