SWANS

See this paper
swan
on the kitchen table

Nothing
but a dead sheet
of paper

But you see a bird
a beautiful white bird
maybe even a lake
under it
glinting
in the sun

You ask how
to get thru
hunger
loneliness
violence
poverty

Swans
that's how.

Comments

[Carolyn-poeticpause.blogspot.com]

Lovely words, I'm so glad to have found you here...

[Steve Frenkel]

You say a lot, Charlie, with great economy.