Williams, Ginger

United States, (contemporary)

Watching a Sleeping Pig

  1. Benner’s pig lies asleep
  2. on this sunlit June afternoon
  3. bedded in her slatted wooden pen
  4. ears like banana leaves,
  5. snout, watery and sucking
  6. in time to her porcine dreams.
  7.  
  8. The cloven trotters, perfectly paired,
  9. kick out with each snort.
  10. Dozing in the muddy shadows
  11. she rests on summer hay, dried flowers
  12. and a newly gathered bag of corncobs.
  13.  
  14. I want to lie down by her freckled back,
  15. nuzzle her silvery hairs, stroke her huge ears.
  16. I want to snort, kick and dream with her
  17. between the sunlight and the shadows.

© Ginger Williams. Watching a Sleeping Pig: poems new and selected. Selden, NY: Allbook Books (2011).

About the Poet:

Ginger Williams, United States, (contemporary) is a poet and educator. Williams has been active in the Long Island poetry community since 1992. She received a BS in Philosophy from Connecticut College and a MS in Counseling/Special Education from Fordham/Long Island Universities. Since retiring as a teacher of Special Needs Students in the Three Village School District, she continues to teach poetry in the schools as well as The Mills Pond House, The Walt Whitman Birthplace and other venues.

She has led the UU Free Writers’ Group since 2000. She co-hosts poetry readings the second Monday of each month at Cool Beanz in St. James. She was a winner in the 2005 & 2006 Performance Poets Association contests. Her poetry is informed by the practice of yoga, canoeing, watercolors, and walking by the sea. [DES-11/19]