Why do you stay up so late? BY DON PATERSON For Russ I'll tell you, if you really want to know: remember that day you lost two years ago at the rockpool where you sat and played the jeweler with all those stones you'd stolen from the shore? Most of them went dark and nothing more, but sometimes one would blink the secret color it had locked up somewhere in its stony sleep. This is how you knew the ones to keep. So I collect the dull things of the day in which I see some possibility but which are dead and which have the surprise I don't know, and I've no pool to help me tell— so I look at them and look at them until one thing makes a mirror in my eyes then I paint it with the tear to make it bright. This is why I sit up through the night.
Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth
#Whydoyoustayupsolate? by #DonPaterson
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“So I collect the dull things of the day
in which I see some possibility”
“then I paint it with the tear to make it bright”