Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Say hello to time

Daffodils
by May Swenson


Yellow telephones
in a row in the garden
are ringing,
shrill with light.

Old-fashioned spring
brings earliest models out
each April the same,
naïve and classical.

Look into the yolk-
colored mouthpieces
alert with echoes.
Say hello to time.




















Photo by Don Sessions


From the Writer's Almanac

 

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