Good Poems, American Places by Various

Good Poems, American Places by Various

Author:Various
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-21T16:00:00+00:00


10

RESIDENTIAL

Where I Live

Maxine Kumin

is vertical:

garden, pond, uphill

pasture, run-in shed.

Through pines, Pumpkin Ridge.

Two switchbacks down

church spire, spit of town.

Where I climb I inspect

the peas, cadets erect

in lime-capped rows,

hear hammer blows

as pileateds peck

the rot of shagbark hickories

enlarging last

year’s pterodactyl nests.

Granite erratics

humped like bears

dot the outermost pasture

where in tall grass

clots of ovoid scat

butternut-size, milky brown



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