May 23, 2010
(I was 65)
Certain nouns,
things, have parts to be
named
like Henry Reed’s rifle
with its breech bolt and
cocking piece
Updike’s telephone poles
with insulators and such
Frost’s wall in need of
mending
with its round stones that
refuse to sit
without incantation
Pinsky’s shirt buttons
sizing and facing
Objects of mankind
need mankind to point out
their insignificance
someone to balance the
weapon and the garden
to spike the trunk of the
greenless tree
to refute the wisdom of
division
to set flame to the
parachutes of commerce
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