The FAB&PP Poem of the Month for October 2010
ONE POEM INSIDE TWO OTHERS
the warm
smell of
decay in the
autumn
leaves
sweet
with
transition
and
death
despite
the
rabbit
squats at
the
end of the
driveway
nibbling
fairly
slowly on the
clump of
grass it
had
selected
(out
of
many)
glancing
around
oblivious
to
the old man
and his
observation
(Schrödinger
might
have
been
wrong)
hopping
back
into the
tree
root
where
it
nests
only
when the
passing
agitation
of
a flight
of
morning
doves
on
their
way
somewhere
momentarily
disrupts
the
extended
moment
(the grass was
finished
anyway)
and
later
he lies
marking time
waiting to
see if the
orchestra
will
take
the repeat