If sought

John J McKenna is a Princeton NJ based writer whose efforts range from poetry to longer nonfiction and academic studies. His inspiration, beyond the ever-increasing visits of myriad muses (some of darker voice and wing than others), flows from Rumi, Emerson, and Whitman through Ginsberg to current torchbearers-flamethrowers like Kim Addonizio. John's work has most recently been published in the River Poets Journal (Spring 2010, vol 4, issue 2). This poem suggests a sunny new morning of possibility and hope, although there's an edge in it too, like maybe the narrator is the serpent and not the gardener. What do you think?

If sought
By John J McKenna

When it is that morning
slow lifts its eyes to you,
will you recognize this day
as first,
as yours,
as new?

You will find me,
should you wish,
already in the garden

beginning again
the delicate and deliberate
patient heart hand work
of seeding

Posted by Annmarie at 5/22/2011 11:02 PM
Categories: today's words
Tags: John J McKenna morning garden seeding hand heart
 

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