Lewis Turco
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THREE MOVES IN A DAY
I. Steps
We take a step,
We take another step —
The morning flares,
Becoming lunch at Fido’s,
Then afternoon with doves,
And so on and so on.
Is it not evening then
That makes its move,
Falling like a shawl
Over the hunch we had
That day is finished?
And then, of course,
Another morning bares
Its flaring eyes.
We waken, we take a step,
Another step,
And yet we take another.
II. Flash
The world came to itself
In a hush of twilight.
We hardly knew what to do with it.
But then it came to us
In a flash of rosemary
And a splash of dill —
And we drank it in
And made the most of it.
III. Grotto
If there were more than this,
The grotto of my heart
Where waters sing
Their solos in constant harmony
And time waits in a blue pool,
I would wash moments from my eyes
Till I could see clear
To the bottom of it all.
Lewis Turco
Lewis Turco's THE BOOK OF FORMS:
A HANDBOOK OF POETICS
celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year; its
third edition was published by the University
Press of New England in 2000. His
FEARFUL PLEASURES: THE
COMPLETE POEMS 1959-2007
appeared last year from Star Cloud Press.
Both publishers have issued other titles by Mr.
Turco as well.
Lewis Turco's THE BOOK OF
FORMS: A HANDBOOK OF
POETICS celebrates its fortieth
anniversary this year; its third
edition was published by the
University Press of New England
in 2000. His FEARFUL
PLEASURES: THE COMPLETE
POEMS 1959-2007 appeared last
year from Star Cloud Press. Both
publishers have issued other titles
by Mr. Turco as well.