[lit-ideas] Re: Monday Poem
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:37:04 -0700
while students write i
consider outside the classroom window the fall of leaves
spinning in the sun
down to ground zero
bright red
bright yellow
like wobbling rockets
out of fuel
i glance back to tell my students a money's worth about
hernias, trusses and prolapsed bladders
explaining nineteenth century newspaper ads
and while my mouth works
like some movie with sound fadeout
my mind brings up childhood
as now it often does
waiting for a bus
on a bleak dark day--what other kinds were there-- in autumnal charlton
standing in the rain beside the panes of a gentleman's appliance shop
a forbidden and forbidding place
where no one under twenty one was allowed
we boys wondered if pornography was in there
or maybe they kept a fallen woman
beneath the counter
and we raced leaves
our gazes intent
upon the gutter
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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