Academy of American Poets
View Cart | Log In 
Subscribe | More Info 
Find a Poet or Poem
Advanced Search >
Want more poems?
Subscribe to our
Poem-A-Day emails.
FURTHER READING
Related Poems
"Also Birds" [excerpt]
by Dawn Lundy Martin
The Last 4 Things [That hard thread]
by Kate Greenstreet
Suspend, Singer Swan
by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Sponsor a Poet Page | Add to Notebook | Email to Friend | Print

Bows From The Last Dance

 
by Ish Klein

Not enough left to make sure a swan stays

a swan until the end of the last act.



New strings need new arrangements, better bows,

a whole evening    you weren't dreaming.



A progression of swan to court lady

 requires a peasant girl in between.



Calculator, to me these things you show:



   a calculator requires a show



not a new lady dreaming between stays.









Copyright © 2012 by Ish Klein. Used with permission of the author.
Larger TypeLarger Type | Home | Help | Contact Us | Privacy Policy Copyright © 1997 - 2013 by Academy of American Poets.