Sunday, May 5, 2013

Two short poems, influenced, I think, by Thomas Aquinas

The Water

Ohmygod, turn off the water! she said.  You'll waste it!
I can't, I said.  I'm doing something important.
What are you doing?

I was feeling the soapsuds in my fingers while listening to the sound of hot water falling into a basin.



Why Poems About Flowers Are Inexhaustible

Because they're real!
And when you come across one
you think: still?!  For me, even?
I've heard about you,
but, oh!

And so a poem is born.