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A Parade! Poem in American Life in Poetry

Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2020| 15 Comments »

Dear friends,

check it out … this week Ted Kooser, past US Poet Laureate, chose my poem for his weekly column–and if your town, like mine, is not having a parade this year, well, here’s one for you!

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Still to Come

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There will be a time when I will sit quietly

on the chair and feel no urgency to rise, to rush.

Won’t feel the crush of the unfinished list,

won’t feel late, overdue, behind. I may not

even know the time, won’t fear the tick of the clock

as an adversary. Perhaps I’ll even close my eyes

and lean back and let my limbs soften

like honey warmed in the sun.

An idea might come, but I’ll not try to capture it.

This isn’t laziness, no part of me will think so.

No, I’ll revel in the slowness, the unhurried day.

And I’ll remember, perhaps, a time when the ticking

felt like a bomb inside me. Where did it go,

I might wonder, as I pour myself another cup of tea,

the scent of bergamot citrusy and bright.

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