Poem-A-Day: Belong To by David Baker

Belong To  by David Baker   See the pair of us                               Raining and morning the first soft ashes                               along the high road running the far ridge                               of pines ripped wild to timbers by storming                               to shreds see the white shreds like coals like a                               sudden sorrow see the partial moon see                               the cut sky see us serene with singing                               are we merry are we rueful neither                               is there sufficient wording for what falls                               all the muffled horns pleading but too late                               along the last route of what remains can                               you see us what can you see there--lost leaves                               waiting to come back as leaves . . . Copyright © 2013 by David Baker. Used with permission of the author. About this Poem: "One of my favorite ballads from the early 1950s is the song--recorded famously by both Patti Page and Jo Stafford--'You Belong to Me.' I wanted my poem to be full of echoes of the lyrics of that song and of several recent poems by poets I love.  It is a poem of fragments, leavings, endings, overlapping tones and details, a poem of decasyllabic lines snapped in half but still perceptible, nearly, as a blank verse sonnet.  'See the pyramids along the Nile...'" David Baker Poetry by Baker Never-Ending Birds    Poem-A-Day launched in 2006 and features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day archive.   Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org. May 2, 2013 David Baker is the author of several books of poetry, the most recent of which is Never-Ending Birds (W.W. Norton, 2009). He teaches at Denison University and Warren Wilson College. Baker lives in Ohio and serves as Poetry Editor of the Kenyon Review. Related Poems The Everyday Enchantment of Music by Mark Strand Lost Fugue for Chet by Lynda Hull Little Fugue by Marianne Boruch

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