Monday, October 29, 2007

Poem Written Three Years Ago, and I Still Like It

addressed

i did not think
you would let me
in, that it was

too late
to stop by; so i
wrote you this letter

slid into a
cream
envelope with an

almost cabbage,
bittersweet seal.
there is not much.

this letter is
addressed to you
who did not want

noise, you who believes
apologies like roots
grow deeper than

this blueberry ink
could sink, deeper into
more than this cream-

colored paper. it is
not enough. but see,
i give you

paper moons
and scissor stars
slipped under your door

word constellations
in a bittersweet
envelope.

3 comments:

Cliff said...

A good poem never gets old, just better. Like wine. Unless the wine is over three years old and it tastes really, really nasty. So in this analogy a good poem trumps wine (though I've never had a taste for the stuff anyway...except when I was underage and drinking it was counted as daring).

Em the luddite said...

Kat!!! I'm trying to understand why you never told me you had a blog. I'm assuming it is because in your secret life in the CIA you have to be careful about your internet trail, but I've been onto you all along. Never fear.

Laura said...

i miss you. more than you know.