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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