Carole Towers’ most recent poem to appear here was “At the Center of the Radiance of a Star” (May 2018).
A Gift of Daisies
By Carole Towers
How white the daisies languish
the window above the sink
while evening rustles from the faucet
marked blue.
A light rain caught in the night wind
frets outside the window
until I let it in, until I say; come
you are as comely as the cat, come.
The night is sweet and dumb.
There is an animal in it.
Someone is out there crying:
he loves me not, he loves me.
He loves fields of children in white dresses
Such pain is soft; a pungence of darkness,
wet cedar and decay.
This is lovely. An essential poem.
Char