Days
Swift and subtle
The flying shuttle
Crosses the web
And fills the loom,
Leaving for range
Of choice or change
No room, no room.
Copyright Credit: Janet Lewis, “Days” from Selected Poems of Janet Lewis. Used with the permission of Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, www.ohioswallow.com.
Source: The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis (Ohio University Press, 2000)