In the warming recollection of your children,
for whose sake you pray as you can for death
to have no dominion, that you are forgiven .
Kay Ryan
IS IT MODEST?
Is it modest or arrogant
not to enter the scene;
instead
to
push a parrot
forward or make the air
apparent in the spring;
to press the whole embarrassment
of riches at us - bejeweling
every mean web, glazing water
in ditches; to divest yourself
upon us till every moth or hibiscus
or bottle fragment is some
aspect of your garment, some
hem to kiss; un-becoming on and on,
leaving us like this?
Nicholas Christopher
ROOFTOP
Across the street tonight
the snow is glazed fast
on the warehouse roof.
As
if at any moment
a phalanx of skaters
might dart from the shadows
