Album for the Young (and Old) by Vera Pavlova

Author:Vera Pavlova [Seymour, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2017-04-04T00:00:00+00:00

II

[A thought]

A thought is not ripe,

if it cannot be put in four lines.

A love is not ripe,

if it cannot be put in one “ah.”

A poem is poorly written, if right now

I start looking for rhymes and stick to a meter.

A life has been poorly lived,

if it cannot be put in one “yes.”

[So much]

So much life in me!

Enough for ten.

I must have been born

to birth ten kids

and to school each

in music.

[an ant]

an ant on the sleeve

a dragonfly on Rabelais

a man lying on grass

on earth on the Earth

on the Earth’s chest

curled up asleep

don’t wake him up

maybe later

not now

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