Ronald Koertge Believe Poems
- 1. Little Morning Seranade
Bamboo shoots in a blue pot, tea steeping
in a tall cup with painted koi on the side.
Outside my window, the cat stalks a sparrow,
but is too tender-hearted to lunge.
... - 2. An Infinite Number Of Monkeys
After all the Shakespeare, the book
of poems they type is the saddest
in history.
... - 3. Roadside Creche
Traditionally, Gaspar, Melchoir and Balthasar
show up with their exotic gifts, though the Bible
does not name them and some scholars believe
the Chinese sage Liu Shang might have attended
... - 4. The Streetsweeper
goes by at 1:00 a.m. two nights of the week. I can
hear the feather whoosh of his machine and see
one red light.
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