This month’s poem is Graham Bruce Fletcher’s verse, “An Ode to Wednesday.” It’s a sort of in-joke as Wednesday is the day Somewhere Else Writers gather to share examples of their work and discuss the craft of writing.
The poem is also a clever play on the way different languages find their own means of describing the same things, often illuminating something of the character of the people who speak that language. Where English often uses words ‘borrowed’ from past invaders, such as the Romans, the Vikings, and the Normans, the Germans call Wednesday ‘midweek’ (Mittwoch) and the French name it after Mercury (Mercredi). You can read the poem by visiting our site and clicking on the Poem of the Month icon on our webpage, or by clicking here.
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