Sunday, January 01, 2006

Random Acts of Poetry

Random Acts of Poetry

Country Life

I look at the straw
and ask why

won't you be spun into gold?
What was his name?

Rumplestiltskin?
Are you so satisfied

with your life on the farm,
in the guts of the scarecrow?

No reply.
Hats, baskets.

With such aspirations
the world is a small acre.

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