Approximately 10 years ago – and we say ‘approximately’ because the earliest saved post we have is from 5th January 2007 – Ink Sweat & Tears was born. We celebrate quietly today with Marjorie Sadin’s poem below.
Six Rowers
Six rowers on the river in mid-spring,
with a motor boat and a man with a megaphone
preaching to the rowers.
The six rowers go under a bridge.
I can barely see them.
And I am inside the tiny boat in my mind’s eye,
rowing furiously.
As if I could stay alive
merely by rowing,
I dream of a cold river
and being on that river.
Rowing, rowing rowing.
Marjorie Sadin, a docent at the Library of Congress, has poems in The Barefoot Review, Microw, Emerge, The Little Magazine, Jewish Women’s Literary Journal, Tower Journal, among many others, and five books of poetry in print. Her new Vision of Lucha book portrays struggle and survival, love, death, and family. It was published by Goldfish Press. Marjorie lives and reads her poetry in the Washington DC area.