The March Hare: Fall 2007 Issue 54

Cover Page • Gaining Perspective • Liat Silverman's Bio • Status Report • Nature Corner • A Poem • Hopper's Index

A Poem

by Genevieve

in one long decade on a speck of green,
a courtyard laid down beside an elm
and we had arrived

we stay and shift and build and move, 
still the swine of old haunt outdoor eaters
with sticky tales that push up garden herbs 

some can taste even older stories as
back and forth, back and forth
microorganisms and man share food and drink

generously, the sprites will possess our drawing hands
and fiendish muses orchestrate insectuous orchestrations- mood music for 
lovers loving on beds of grass, sheets of wheat, or a trampoline-
trying to make the most of the appointed present
-gardening-
german bells sprout taco tomatoes
and lazy fraisies dance the thai rhumba
and when bread was baking, 
the transient penguins would cry from their blistering igloo
till they were freed by a fro who knew their plea

just like a thatch-top, decoupaged mosquito-breeding program
is now an ex-wigwam of a satisfied compost prophet 

fertility and parturiency, the legacy of all-
what is there to remember but the color of now?

though, in a long decade on a speck of green
the arms of one elm have grown short

we'll stretch our own branches for a while

Cover Page • Gaining Perspective • Liat Silverman's Bio • Status Report • Nature Corner • A Poem • Hopper's Index

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