#4 by Jane Miller - Poems | Academy of American Poets

Do you know how long it has been since a moral choice presented itself

and the wrong choice was made

not two minutes

why is it not quiet between lightning and thunder as if someone were asking

do you have other articulable feelings  if so express them now

tragedy ensues

with a laser blast from the cockpit

the dangled finger of God makes contact

PLEASE CALL FOR SEVERAL THOUSAND PHYSICIANS QUICKLY

Credit

Reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.

Author

Jane Miller

Jane Miller is the author of ten books of poetry including Paper Banners (Copper Canyon Press, 2023); Who Is Trixie the Trasher? and Other Questions (Copper Canyon Press, 2018); and Thunderbird (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). She is also the author of Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel (University of Michigan Press, 1992).

Miller is the recipient of a Wallace Award for Poetry, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.

Date Published

01/01/1980