That Light
by Paul Hostovsky
Everything is interesting
if you’re of a mind to see it
in that light. Claude Monet
probably understood this. The stoners
back in high school definitely
understood that everything is intoxicatingly
interesting if you’re of a mind
to see it in that light. My grandmother
in the emergency room
surrounded by doctors and nurses and children
and grandchildren, was of a mind to see
the pulse-oximeter on her left index finger
as the most interesting thing in the room,
more interesting than anything else in recent
memory, which was mostly gone
by then anyway. She cocked
her head like a bird or philosopher
contemplating a crumb
on God’s table under the light, that light,
and said to her children and her children’s children
and all of the strangers working together
to keep her from dying: “What
is the name of this thing? It’s so interesting.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before.”
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Ready for Retirement by Mike Yuan
- A Gravestone Upon The Floor In The Cloisters Of Worcester Cathedral by William Wordsworth
- All That’s Past by Walter de la Mare
- Алексей Толстой – Рондо
- Алексей Плещеев – Мною злых и глупых шуток
- The Copper Beech by Marie Howe
- TIRELESSLY by Satish Verma
- Evening Hawk by Robert Penn Warren
- Song. Mediocrity in love rejected. by Thomas Carew
- One Song, America, Before I Go. by Walt Whitman
- Иван Крылов – Лев состаревшийся (Басня)
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы вместе грабили одну и ту же хату
- Late Evening Song by Weldon Kees
- Words You Said poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth by William Shakespeare
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