On the 7th of May, James and I will be celebrating our 21st wedding anniversary. I wrote this poem for him in the style of a poem written by Marya Zaturenska, for her husband and poet, Horace Gregory.

Marya Zaturenska (September 12, 1902 - January 19, 1982) was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938. She was born in Kiev and her family emigrated to the United States, when she was eight and lived in New York. Like many immigrants, she worked in a clothing factory during the day, but was able to attend night high school. She was an outstanding student and won a scholarship to Valparaiso University; she later transferred to the University of Wisconsin - Madison, receiving a degree in library science. She met her husband, the prize-winning poet Horace Gregory there; they married in 1925. Her two children were Patrick and Joanna Gregory. She wrote eight volumes of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cold Morning Sky, and she edited six anthologies of poetry. Her work appeared in The New York Times and Poetry Magazine. (excerpt from Wikipedia)

If you would like to read her other poetry, you'll find it listed at allpoetry.com and you may read about her husband and poet, Horace Gregory, here: http://pennyspoetry.wikia.com/wiki/Horace_Gregory


Reflections on a Centaur
by Marya Zaturenska

The years grow small and gray
Above the immobile hills,
I see them float away--

Neither have I grown rich,
Or deeper, more serene:
I am what I have been.

Drink, then, with vivid eyes
This brief and changing world
Of morning light and skies;

Observe this marble faun
Whose cool archaic head
Shines out across the lawn--

Mosaic of my blood,
Of each experience,
Carve something large and good.

So will the lost years fly
Nor will I turn, nor heed
Time's centaur, or his speed.

This poem was written for Horace Gregory, the poet's husband.

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