Communique
Posted in daily, poetic on Dec 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
“Hand Tools”
art by Shari Arai DeBoer
Communique
Tin hollers a raindrop’s clap.
And stems of pens, the reach
of a wooden 12-inch ruler,
the watercolorist’s brushes,
rattle in the can
once marketed for the worker’s brew.
Type heartily now; discern letter
from carbon-copied invoice.
Only ghosts, empty spaces and
children clamber for news
of your lover’s war
by telegraph.
So, this poem written during a September 2007 Kundiman Fellows [...]