Poem without Angel Food
Well, a great many things have been said
in the oven of hours. We have not been
shaken out of the magnolias. Today was another
hard day. And tomorrow will be harder. Well,
that sounds like our gong. But we’ll have
the boy’s birthday and we will have
music and cake. Well, I will think only
good thoughts and go up and talk to the rock.
C. D. Wright, “Poem without Angel Food” from ShallCross. Copyright © 2016 by C. D. Wright. Used with permission of The Permissions Company, Inc. on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.