Cummins, Deborah 2002
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
American Poets Reading
with Jenny A. Burkholder, Janice Harrington, and John Mann
American Poets Reading
with Jenny A. Burkholder, Janice Harrington, and John Mann
He sits beside his wife who takes the wheel.
Clutching coupons, he wanders the aisles
of Stop & Save. There’s no place he must be,
no clock to punch. Sure,
there are bass in the lake, a balsa model
in the garage, the par-three back nine.
But it’s not the same.
Time the enemy then, the enemy now.
– Deborah Cummins, “At a Certain Age”
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Once more, in their dumb unknowing,
sandhill cranes are pulled to a place
they must again and again get back to.
– Deborah Cummins, “Passage”
