Time I'm Not Here
Published in Poem Of The Day
All day on all my days,
the lives I'm not to process wash in;
anxieties lullaby on
and quite like to be gotten among;
but now-and now-one old,
abundant flower just screws up the room.
About This Poem
"I'm not always so keen on notes to poems, but it might amuse the reader to know that I wrote this poem in the middle of the night after my coffee table collapsed, which terrified me, and which caused a vase of flowers that should've been thrown away days earlier-they were dry and smelled badly-to spill onto the floor."
-Graham Foust
About Graham Foust
Graham Foust is the author of "Time Down to Mind" (Flood Editions, 2015). He works at the University of Denver and lives in Denver.
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(c) 2016 Graham Foust. Originally published in Poem-a-Day, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate
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