Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Overread at Table 4: Mars Poetica, by Wyn Cooper

sent to me from poetnews@poets.org
Poem-A-Day


Mars Poetica
by Wyn Cooper

Imagine you're on Mars, looking at earth,
a swirl of colors in the distance.
Tell us what you miss most, or least.

Let your feelings rise to the surface.
Skim that surface with a tiny net.
Now you're getting the hang of it.

Tell us your story slantwise,
streetwise, in the disguise
of an astronaut in his suit.

Tell us something we didn't know
before: how words mean things
we didn't know we knew.

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