Chapbook. Poems by Michael Goldman
Published by Hammer & Horn Productions
Ⓒ 2019
READ A POEM FROM THE BOOK:
The Miracle
It is not that
the sun comes up
or the earth goes around
or that the plants sprout
and take up rain
and flower and set seed
or that our hearts pound
five thousand times an hour –
It’s that we don’t have
to go out with tethers
to make the heavenly bodies
move correctly around
or caress the ground
and tease the stems upright
and separate the petals
or tap our chests
continually with little hammers
and we can put
our attention elsewhere.