Homage to Robert Creeley
What I thought
was a fly on the window was
A knot on the branch outside
Near it a real fly sat
Quiet in the sun
Wind rocked all the branches the fly
sat still
Credit
“Homage to Robert Creeley” from The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen.
© 2007 by Philip Whalen. Published by Wesleyan University Press.
Used by permission.
Date Published
01/01/2007