Sunday, November 12, 2023

Gift

Sugar camp, mailbox, Upper Turkeyfoot


Unexpected marvel,

only you can judge

which of your friends

hide behind the miracles —

pleasure, passion —

lovely by first-class mail

when you are far away.


Even a person

who has everything

needs a poem now and then.



—an "erasure" of a gift subscription promo for The Threepenny Review.