Showing posts with label Lisel Mueller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lisel Mueller. Show all posts

7/9/18

DAUGHTER - Lisel Mueller

My next poem will be happy,
I promise myself. Then you come
with your deep eyes, your tall jeans,
your narrow hands, your wit,
your uncanny knowledge, and
your loneliness. All the flowers
your father planted, all
the green beans that have made it,
all the world’s recorded pianos
and this exhilarating day
cannot change that.