A Word Led Me Into A Forest             Poetry International ‘07

  Of Tall Oaks & Evergreens   
                                                                                                          

The lovely poem married a dog.

Together they lived in the hotel of the heart.

When the poem wanted inspiration,

the dog fetched. When the dog wanted

a bone, the poem wrote a piece

entitled Bone. So it went

as years stacked their harvest,

and the two grew old, brittle in the limbs.

While they sat on their porch

sipping lemonade, the dog said to the poem,

“I’ve fetched my entire life and now

I’m tired of chasing after things.”

“Me too,” replied the poem,

and they both settled into the comfort

of being the day and the night,

something that easily rolls over.