I was painting my altar bench red
when oops, a fly made a sticky landing.
By pencil-tip, emergency rescue.
Buzzy creature, I've set you free.
I'll know you if you come back this way
for now you have red red feet.
Bionote
Barry Spacks has taught writing and literature for many years at M.I.T. and UCSB. He’s published
individual poems widely, plus
stories, two novels, eleven poetry collections,
and three CDs of selected work. His first novel The
Sophomore has just been brought back into
print in the Faber
& Faber Finds series. His most
recent poetry collection (Cherry Grove, 2012) presents a
selection from ten
years of e-mail exchanges with his friend
Lawrence E, Leone. It's called A
BOUNTY OF 84s (the 84 being a stanza limited exactly to 84
characters, echoing
the traditional notion that the Buddha left us 84,000 different teachings
because humans have so many different needs, are all of them
so differently the
same).
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