Budejovicka/Beth Kephart Poem

Friday, December 31, 2010

Budejovicka



It was the way the dust hung, globed and white,
and how every room was square and thumbtacked green
with ivy.  She’d left three slips
drying on the line outside, and a peach on the table,
and the old bear of her winter coat in the closet because it was still,
in some ways, an animal, and, besides, you were only
passing through and it was summer.
You bought a heel of bread at the Metro stop and hung
a paper goose from a hook in the ceiling and when you tell
the story (you tell the story)
the puppets are alive because of you.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beautiful, Beth.

Beth F said...

Lovely.

Have a happy, healthy new year. I hope our paths cross in 2011.

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