Maria Bennett


 


what more can the rain do

what more
can the rain do
to me
now
that it has slipped
its gray hands
under my door
ripped it from its
hinges
and
battered
all that remains
inside
shuddering

unable to push back
i can only
offer
empty arms
open
to this
cruel
and epileptic
spring

 

 


 
Maria Bennett teaches creative writing at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York, where she has been an Assistant Professor of English for twenty-seven years. Her original work and her translations of the poets Nancy Morejon, Ernesto Cardenal, and Cintio Vitier have appeared in Nexus, Crab Creek Review, and Esprit magazines, and she is currently completing the translation of the works of the Spanish poet Carlos Edmundo de Ory.