| Levinas asked if we have the right To be the way I ask my sons If they’d like to be trees The way the word tree Makes them a little animal Dancing up and down Like bears in movies Bears I have to say Pretend we are children At a river one of them says So we sip it pivot in the hallway Call it a canoe It is noon in the living room We are rowing through a blue That is a feeling mostly The way drifting greenly Under real trees Is a feeling near holy Copyright © 2015 by Idra Novey. Used with permission of the author. |
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