Hot Lyric

This entry is part 40 of 63 in the series Morning Porch Poems: Autumn 2011

Reading a poem by Di Piero, …the best
of love is enthusiasm’s/ intense abandon,
a voice/ in song that preys on no one/ and is
unconscious of its joy
, I have to stop and think
hard to remember: when was the last time I
felt such rust-colored joy, ruddy as the copper-
clad teakettle brought quick to the boil,
singing its head off atop the stove?

[LAG-signature date=”11 27 2011″ url=”http://morningporch.com/2011/11/159122183/”]

Morning Porch Poems: Autumn 2011

Ghazal of the Transcendental On the sense of danger or foreboding, the prickling