does anyone know
viburnum?
hyacinth
have I ever seen
hyacinth
not in a
dictionary?
yet the detail
tells
like noticing the rivet
that holds the jaw
onto the tin man
the droop of a waiting room couch
the weary lift of a woman’s hip
onto the examination table
her eyelids half-closed
we know these poor
without ever traveling
New Jersey
or Manhattan
the flight of a startled robin
their occasional hope
“no idea
but in things”
the precision
he puts in poems
the inspiration
in us
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