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Mark Jarman
Mark Jarman
Poet Mark Jarman won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and has authored many collections of poetry...
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Then Saw the Problem

 
by Mark Jarman

How do you turn into a flower of the field,
the lily clothed to make Solomon rue his glory?

What leap takes off from here towards evolution,
pointing the way to the pearly everlasting?

Eons made the flower and flowers have their agendas,
whatever the population of the field—

more than a lifetime to construct that airport.









Copyright © 2012 by Mark Jarman. Used with permission of the author.
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