http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2009/06/on-the-poverty-of-my-imagination-by-tiffany-beechy/ Poetry for Everyone. Wed, 23 May 2012 21:21:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2009/06/on-the-poverty-of-my-imagination-by-tiffany-beechy/#comment-160 Melanie Wright Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:59:38 +0000 http://www.rattle.com/blog/?p=1204#comment-160 The problem is, so much happens in this world people are dreaming thinking scheming on 88 levels of every Manhattan highrise; the psychic energy enough to power a train barrelling through rodeo lands tumbling weeds and chevys and little Lakota girls’ braids, steaming down to the teeming sea with depths deeper than Everest’s heights and more kinds of fish unknown than known. Every day a miracle; every day a new element to the periodic table, a new strawberry plucked by calloused hands, a new concatenation of cells bursting forth into family and new paths weaving an ever higher threadcount in life’s tapestry. Every day the microchip gets smaller, wikipedia larger, the possibilities ever more endless. So much to see, so much to do, so much to know. So much to sing. So much. The problem is, so much happens in this world
people are dreaming thinking scheming on 88 levels
of every Manhattan highrise; the psychic energy
enough to power a train barrelling through rodeo lands
tumbling weeds and chevys and little Lakota girls’ braids,
steaming down to the teeming sea with depths deeper
than Everest’s heights and more kinds of fish unknown than known.
Every day a miracle; every day a new element
to the periodic table, a new strawberry plucked by calloused hands,
a new concatenation of cells bursting forth into family
and new paths weaving an ever higher threadcount in life’s tapestry.
Every day the microchip gets smaller, wikipedia larger, the possibilities
ever more endless. So much to see, so much to do, so much
to know. So much to sing. So much.

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