Mist Valley
At the end of August, when all The letters of the alphabet are waiting, You drop a teabag in a cup. The same few letters making many different words, The same words meaning different things. Often you've rearranged them on the surface of the fridge. Without the surface They're repulsed by one another. Here are the letters. The tea is in your cup. At the end of August, the mind Is neither the pokeweed piercing the grass Nor the grass itself. As Tony Cook says in The Biology of Terrestrial Mollusks The right thing to do is nothing, the place A place of concealment, And the time as often as possible.
Credit
Copyright © 2012 by James Longenbach. Used with permission of the author.
Date Published
08/17/2012