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Spring is here, after the longest autumn in recorded history; it’s Women’s History Month; and our monthly liturgical theme is vulnerability. What better way to celebrate and acknowledge all of this than with a poem by Marge Piercy?
I would post her poem “The Level” here, but I can’t. Because I don’t have written permission of the publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. But, you can follow this link.
Marge Piercy was born in Detroit during the Great Depression to a Christian father and Jewish mother. In those days, in that place, according to Piercy, Black people and Jewish people were lumped together as “not white.” She had no idea people saw her as white until she went off to college. She also had no idea that her first two husbands expected her to be the kind of woman their moms had been. She was always seeking balance as she forged her own way of being, and always used amazing imagery in her words.
If you don’t know anything about Marge Piercy, you should look her up. She’s actually one of the more published persons in our gray hymnal, with three readings: (567) “To Be of Use,” (568) “Connections Are Made Slowly,” and (585) “Councils.” Just the titles of those pieces give a hint about who she was and why she is important to Unitarian Universalists. Especially in a week like this.
In Peace,
Rev Denis
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