The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 3/8/2009)

[RetroLounge]

Happiness

Because yesterday morning from the steamy window
we saw a pair of red foxes across the creek
eating the last windfall apples in the rain—
they looked up at us with their green eyes
long enough to symbolize the wakefulness of living things
and then went back to eating—

and because this morning
when she went into the gazebo with her black pen and yellow pad
to coax an inquisitive soul
from what she thinks of as the reluctance of matter,
I drove into town to drink tea in the cafe
and write notes in a journal—mist rose from the bay
like the luminous and indefinite aspect of intention,
and a small flock of tundra swans
for the second winter in a row was feeding on new grass
in the soaked fields; they symbolize mystery, I suppose,
they are also called whistling swans, are very white,
and their eyes are black—

and because the tea steamed in front of me,
and the notebook, turned to a new page,
was blank except for a faint blue idea of order,
I wrote: happiness! it is December, very cold,
we woke early this morning,
and lay in bed kissing,
our eyes squinched up like bats.

Robert Hass

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:hi:

RL

[Chorophyll]

1. Oh, finally!

You posted one that I've already read. :D

I'm happy to read it again any time, though.

:hi:

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3. Really?

Hmmm, I really should track the ones I've posted, but I've got almost 3 years worth in my journal.

It would take me too long to archive them all in such a fashion that I could search thru them.

But I am just geeky enough to write a database program to do it. :D

:hi:

RL

[Chorophyll]

4. Oops. No, I didn't mean that you've already posted it.

I actually read it in a book, like a Smart Person. :)

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5. Ah...

And here I was searching my journal for it... :9

:hi:

RL

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. ...

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6. Good Morning!

:hi:

RL

[RetroLounge]

7. Afternoon kick

:kick:

RL