Drinking Black Tea Early in the Morning, and: A List of Possibilities in an Uncertain Order
2009; Colorado State University; Volume: 36; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/col.2009.0004
ISSN2325-730X
Autores Tópico(s)Ginseng Biological Effects and Applications
Resumo111 The gods are snoring. The snow, a sugar snow, falls like a scrim across the outer world. A long winter’s ashes have settled in the fireplace, miniature gray dunes. A charred log lies across the andirons. The dogs sleep. The cats sleep. No branches move. The air is there, in a stillness lost on those who cannot see it matters. My mother will sleep most of the day. My father will sleep all day. There is dust on the shelves, along the top ridge of each book. On the windowsill, a jar of peppercorns, half a bottle of brandy. A walking stick by the door. I have been reading The Art of Babar. Yesterday I spent some time wondering why. Today I don’t. I look at the spaces between each word. Time burns. We’re out of matches. We’re also out of milk. jack ridl Drinking Black Tea Early in the Morning CRSP09 poetry.indd 111 1/30/2009 12:51:02 PM 112 Lighthouses may well still be useful. Dogs live knowing how to live; they alone defy Kierkegaard. God is likely tired of being God. If you wait long enough, the shadows . . . Despite what they say, it can be good to take a nap longer than twenty minutes. Rain that never falls is still rain. Amen is the only way out. Honeysuckle, like love, grows anyway. Études could well be beautiful when played on a kazoo. The lyricism of early morning often arrives unaccountably. jack ridl A List of Possibilities in an Uncertain Order CRSP09 poetry.indd 112 1/30/2009 12:51:02 PM ...
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