Self Portrait as a Meadow
By Linda Norton
There is a chair
the heart of which
is wooden
split five ways
and grass pressed flat
where we kissed
where others later kissed
on the same mattress
and solemn nothing
happening under a canopy—
Have you forgotten me?
I will go down wonderfully
as was told in proverbs
though for a long time I thought
I should not go.
Here are things that have
no Latin names
or none
that men would know.
Copyright Credit: Linda Norton, “Self Portrait as a Meadow” from The Public Gardens, published by Pressed Wafer. Copyright © 2011 by Linda Norton. Reprinted by permission of Linda Norton.
Source: The Public Gardens (Pressed Wafer, 2011)