A hawk drops to the treetop Like a falling cross. The haybarn is ticking. The Universe has everything. That's what I like about it. A single chubby cloud Beelines downwind Trying to catch up with the others. Yellow leaves plane across the water, Drifting the inlet. The pond is a droozy eye. Details tend to equal each other, Making decisions harder. Is polio an endangered species? The Universe is mostly empty, That's important; A fractal palindrome of concentric Emptinesses. Is there life out there? Are there lawns? Columbus is famous for discovering a place Where there were already people Killing each other. Nothing missing. Nothing new. Let's pick wildflowers. Let's take a meteor shower. Let's live forever and let's die, too. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN ANSWER TO THE PARSON by WILLIAM BLAKE THE ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY by ROBERT BROWNING THE AGED STRANGER; AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR by FRANCIS BRET HARTE WHERE SHALL I DIE? by MARIA ABDY OVID TO HIS WIFE: IMITATED FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF TRISTIA by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD JACINTHS AND JESSAMINES by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |