by Elizabeth Bishop
Dust from the floors of Heaven
that makes one sneeze and then smell honey.
What angels threw it out down here,
the lovely, yellow, air-light litter?
The gray-green leaves fold neatly back
like kittens' ears. The hillside's gold.
No, better than gold
this fine, soft, unmixed pigment.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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