31 May 2012

This poem came to mind

I was wondering around the Idaho countryside, a rural area with old barns and houses, and this Creeley poem snuck into me.


Somewhere

The galloping collection of boards   
are the house which I afforded   
one evening to walk into
just as the night came down.

Dark inside, the candle
lit of its own free will, the attic   
groaned then, the stairs
led me up into the air.

From outside, it must have seemed   
a wonder that it was
the inside he as me saw
in the dark there.


5 comments:

  1. "wandering," though "wondering" works, too.

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  2. That last stanza is especially killer. Did you happen onto Napoleon or Kip Dynamite out there? -tm

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  3. Shep goes awanderin...

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  4. My voice has been added to this online conversation.

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  5. Haha. I avoided Napoleon, Kip Dynamite, and any stranger danger that can happen in rural Idaho.

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