Lyric Life

Ellen Bass's haunting poem "Indigo" is as raw and honest a poem as I've read in a long time. It twists and turns to end at a place no one could predict, from sexual fantasies to the most real and horrifying moment a person can have with a family member. It's somehow still comforting and gorgeous, real and honest, painful and gorgeous. In other words, it's a testament to the fact that poets can say what no one else can.