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.