The Trouble with Poetry: And Other Poems by Billy Collins

Author:Billy Collins [Collins, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-43271-1
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2011-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

How they know the difference

between the green hedges, the stone walls,

and you is beyond me,

yet the schoolbuses flashing in the rain

do come in, as well as the postman waving

and the mother and daughter dogs next door,

and then there is the tea kettle

about to play its chord—

everything sailing right in but you, girl.

Yes, just as the night air passes through the screen,

but not the mosquito,

and as water swirls down the drain,

but not the eggshell,

so the flowering trellis and the moon

pass through my special glasses, but not you.

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