Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Mark McMorris


Mark McMorris 

Practical Green Table

I thought to write an elegy

as  reply to your questions

to pitch the word as far forward

like a dolphin out of the sea

over a threshold, to behold

the land as practical and green

as this table, a space to write

and walk into like a kitchen

hearing the conjuct vowels

what does a reader suppose

if not the promise of a text

the ultimate form at the end

of a chain of forms infinite

summed to a singular value

the elegy as a place to begin.

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