Writer, Publisher, Poet, BloggistNorb Blei
of Ellison Bay, Door Co., WI
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Publisher of WORDS ON WATER
A FERRYMAN'S JOURNAL, Washington Island, WI
by Dick Purinton
Today Norb sent this:
THE TOAD
by Charles Simic
It'll be a while before my friends
See me in the city,
A while before we roam the streets
Late at night
Shouting each other's names
To point out some sight too wonderful,
Or too terrifying
To give it a name in a hurry.
I'm staying in the country,
Rising early,
Listening to the birds
Greet the light,
And when they fall quiet,
To the wind in the leaves
Which are as numerous here
As the crowds in your city.
God never made a day as beautiful as today,
A neighbor was saying.
I sat in the shade after she left
Mulling that one over,
When a toad hopped out of the grass
And finding me harmless,
Hopped over my foot on his way to the pond.
(from The New York Review of Books, August 13, 2009)
by Charles Simic
It'll be a while before my friends
See me in the city,
A while before we roam the streets
Late at night
Shouting each other's names
To point out some sight too wonderful,
Or too terrifying
To give it a name in a hurry.
I'm staying in the country,
Rising early,
Listening to the birds
Greet the light,
And when they fall quiet,
To the wind in the leaves
Which are as numerous here
As the crowds in your city.
God never made a day as beautiful as today,
A neighbor was saying.
I sat in the shade after she left
Mulling that one over,
When a toad hopped out of the grass
And finding me harmless,
Hopped over my foot on his way to the pond.
(from The New York Review of Books, August 13, 2009)
