September 2010
3 posts
”In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you’re young enough to enjoy your...
The White Insignificance
And yet so little depends
On the crowing
Of a rooster
.
Eyes glazed in the morning,
Noon and evening
Sun;
.
And so much on
The thinning
Of his roost
.
For Sunday supper, dimpled skin rid of
White feathers for feeding the
Farmers’ children
.
- in response to William Carlos Williams famous The Red Wheelbarrow