Brenda Shaughnessy
A Poet’s Poem
Idioma: inglés
Traducciones:
alemán (Wie man dichtet)
A Poet’s Poem
If it takes me all day,
I will get the word “freshened” out of this poem.
I put it in the first line, then moved it to the second
and now it won’t come out.
It’s stuck. I’m so frustrated,
so I went out to my little porch all covered in snow
and watched the icicles drip, as I smoked
a cigarette.
Finally I reached up and broke a big, clear spike
off the roof with my bare hand.
And used it to write a word in the snow.
I wrote the word “snow.”
I can’t stand myself.