Mothers, children, lanyard receivers and makers everywhere, this must be watched:
The Lanyard, by Billy Collins.
-Lucia
Mothers, children, lanyard receivers and makers everywhere, this must be watched:
The Lanyard, by Billy Collins.
-Lucia
Filed under Poetry Month 2010
Illustration by James C. Hegedus
Hidden Altar-
-tucked-
Where sprites bristle with Eve
and flow freely
No one considered
the ritual
no one thought it up-
out of book and prayer
twinned with time
came free spirits...
Tiny silken moth
fluttering by
accidentally brushes
the heart...
...light passes
and Eve listens
to lost Romeo
or Aristotle
or Cain
with same forgiving ear...
So the falling trees
can accept their fate
for one more day.
-Brett Brdas