Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Poem: Driving Home To Seattle, We Watch Deer Drinking from the Skookumchuck River


A rainbow loops over
the alder cathedral.
Dark clouds are sinking.

The Lamplighter
loans them a patch of land
and a heartbeat.
---o0o---

Jack Brummet
(originally appeared in The Croton Review)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Poem -“A Better Place Rwanda Girl”
By Zainab McCoy © 2005

Sitting in the hot sun under the acacias tree
Her leaves shade the sun and protect me
Lazy I wait for the sun to go down
Counting the days I will leave this ground
My stomach is swollen an I want to cry
Leaving my mother, who will soon die
She knows that I too go to a better place
We say our last prayer we say our last grace