Poetry Blitz, Three.

This is the third installation of book ends'

National Poetry Month poetry blitz! Read about it here.

Found

by Ron Koertge

[Appeared in Iodine Poetry Journal, reprinted in Best American Poetry 2006]

My wife waits for a caterpillar

to crawl onto her palm so she

can carry it out of the street

and into the green subdivision

of a tree.

Yesterday she coaxed a spider

into a juicier corner. The day

before she hazed a snail

in a half circle so he wouldn't

have to crawl all the way

around the world and be 2,000

years late for dinner.

I want her to hurry up and pay

attention to me or go where I

want to go until I remember

the night she found me wet

and limping, felt for a collar

and tags, then put me in

the truck where it was warm.

Without her, I wouldn't

be standing here in these

snazzy alligator shoes.

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