Monday, February 6, 2012

The Shirt by Jane Kenyon

The shirt touches his neck
and smooths over his back.
It slides down his sides.
It even goes down below his belt—
down into his pants.
Lucky shirt.
My literary friend sent me a couple of poems including this one by Jane Kenyon: "The first one is, I think, relevant to your feelings." (I love the way she phrased this sentence.) An ordinary object becoming an ingenious metaphor portraying a sense of longing. My first reaction was to laugh. Then I decided that I should give up writing since I would never write anything as subtle and beautiful.

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