Tuesday, March 6, 2012

From a new book entitled Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It: False Apology Poems by Gail Carson Levine:

I have torn
down
the water
spout

which
you obsessively
wanted to climb up
and slide off forever

Forgive me
kick your habit
spin a web
catch a bug.

3 comments:

janers said...

I like it! I like the title of the book too...because it's really always so true.

xhart said...

This book comes with a corresponding non-apology to William Carlos Williams, I assume? Great concept!

lw said...

I'm sure it does. Because "so much depends . . ."