A poem for Eline, mistress of Erlend, mother of Orm and Margret

Acquainted with Eline

after Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night”

I was a woman. I am a martyr.
My shroud held tight inside her cross.
I did not come to Haugen to barter.

Author of "Rainbow Crow" and "The Joy of Poetry," both from TS Poetry Press. Writer and editor here, there, and a bit of everywhere.