Saturday, October 30, 2010
THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS
THE OLD POET SAYS
“So, then,” they asked,
“why do you
keep at it?”
“I cannot,” he said,
“put the cork
back in the bottle.”
*
“Like plums,
sometimes
the weight
of poems
breaks the branch.”
*
“The blessings of travel
are many, not the least
of which is this
urge to poetry.”
