Thursday, September 08, 2011

PASSING SUMMER THOUGHT ON THE STATE OF THE STATE

by Scot Siegel


wow! that big white butterfly
must be colorblind

it keeps alighting
on the sickly rockrose

and those little blossoms
of spent oregano--

if only congress, with its odd
hawks and dumb doves,

would be so magnanimous,
it might make honey

for the rest of us.


Scot Siegel lives in Oregon.

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