Collected Poems of John Holmes
Holmes, John A., Jr.
2002
Few in a million
Few in a million
Few in a million make joy; Truckers; teachers; or know why. But some anywhere every day. | |
So tired I waded through air, I walked to work somewhere. I might never get there. | |
Walking is walking. We walk Standing up, slow as we speak, In a rhythm not to break. | |
Tired is of too much, touch, Lift, decide, explain, watch. Tired is being tired too much. | |
Air is not always underfoot. Now green air sun-yellow-lit Moved, and so much of it. | |
Slowly moved in that air slow, At air's speed, sunned through, Under that all-curving glow, | |
I had done with grue and cark, Was aired, greened to the mark, And got to my kind of work. | |