fifty poems

fifty glimpses

sound as
well as
sight.

listen to
the blue
of seven
magpies,

             seven magpies, blue with age

last night’s rain
in daffodils

          bent, enclosed by gold-ringed eye

fragments, gathered
when they
caught

the ear of a poet’s eye
the way a broken
thing

is apt to do, looking
for all the world
in this

light like a jewel,
like a piece of a world
in pieces, sounded. no

coherence, sampled,
presences say

look, say look
here, now, look,
again, again

now. listen.

Steven Schroeder, Chicago

Liana Quill. Fifty Poems. Hattiesburg, MS: Mississippi Review Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-9842652-1-3.