Poem of the Day
“This was the farewell …”
By Hannah Arendt
Many friends came with us
and whoever did not come was no longer a friend.
Many friends came with us
and whoever did not come was no longer a friend.
Sat for three days in a white room
a tiny truck of white flowers
was driving through the empty window
Script in hand
Stands revealed in Awesome Splendor.
Jigsaw puzzle is pieced together:
out steps a flute player.
The green world thinks the sun
Into one flower, then outraces
It to the sea in sunken pipes.
They are preparing to begin again:
Problems, new pennant up the flagpole
In a predicted romance.
Silly girls your heads full of boys
There is a last sample of talk on the outer side
Your stand at last lifts to dumb evening
I give up:
I bleed I must know.
Grant me the
Then love introduces the expensive dream
Of peace into this last report on the future
Of the past, as the pen snaps
I keep circling the Triborough Bridge
Hell’s Gate Bridge always with a line of freight cars
Randall’s Island, my sister in red and gold cheerleader clothes
A man like snow in Paris beautiful machine
Riding into the stars
A world of Michaels