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
- An Opera House poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- With No Experience In Such Matters by Stephen Dunn
- God lay dead in heaven by Stephen Crane
- Rich or Poor by William Henry Davies
- An Interchanging Poetry Expression Of Love by Mac McGovern
- Николай Глазков – Последний зимний
- from The Tenth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Владимир Маяковский – Точеные слоны
- Владимир Корнилов – Белые слоны
- Омар Хайям – Не смешно ли весь век по копейке копить
- Composed By The Sea-Side, Near Calais, August 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Олег Бундур – Копуша
- Владимир Маяковский – Плюшкин
- Николай Заболоцкий – Офорт
- Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time by William Shakespeare
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Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
