Sky a shook poncho.
Roof wrung. Mind a luna moth
Caught in a banjo.
This weather’s witty
Peek-a-boo. A study in
Insincerity.
Blues! Blooms! The yodel
Of the chimney in night wind.
That flat daffodil.
With absurd hauteur
New tulips dab their shadows
In water-mutter.
Boys are such oxen.
Girls! — sepal-shudder, shadow-
Waver. Equinox.
Plums on the Quad did
Blossom all at once, taking
Down the power grid.
* * * * *
Richard Kenney is the author of three previous books of
poetry: The Evolution of the Flightless Bird (1984), which received the Yale
Younger Poets Prize, Orrery (1985), and
The Invention of the Zero (1993). In 1987 he received a John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Fellowship.
His most recent publication, One-Strand River: Poems1994-2007, was released after a 14-year hiatus from publishing. He is currently
professor of English at the University of Washington and lives with his family
in Port Townsend, Washington.
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