![]() Autumn Sky
In my great grandmother's time, All one needed was a broom To get to see places And give the geese a chase in the sky. The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence. Oh Cynthia, Take a clock that has lost its hands For a ride. Get me a room at Hotel Eternity Where Time likes to stop now and then. Come, lovers of dark corners, The sky says, And sit in one of my dark corners. There are tasty little zeroes In the peanut dish tonight. From Volume 181, Number 1, October 2002 Copyright © The Poetry Foundation |