Poem-A-Day: Mark Jarman, Then Saw the Problem

	August 24, 2012 Today's poem is copyright © 2012 by Mark Jarman. Used with permission of the author. More from this author Other Jarman Poems Descriptions of Heaven and Hell Dispatches from Devereux Slough Ground Swell If I Were Paul Jeffers You can unsubscribe from our Poem-A-Day emails at at anytime—either completely, or until next April. Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane Suite 901 New York, NY 10038 212-274-0343 academy@poets.org		Then Saw the Problem by Mark Jarman How do you turn into a flower of the field, the lily clothed to make Solomon rue his glory? What leap takes off from here towards evolution, pointing the way to the pearly everlasting? Eons made the flower and flowers have their agendas, whatever the population of the field— more than a lifetime to construct that airport. Share Digg StumbleUpon Facebook E-mail to Friend