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 More on poetry from The Atlantic Monthly. |
Love Work
by Gardner McFall .....  Hear the author read this poem (in RealAudio)My love, travel to me quickly for time strikes like a ruler slapped on a pupil's hand. Put work aside, worry, too, all the Midwest Presbyterian principles I once loved you for and still do. I have learned there's more to our being here, so tenuous and brief, than securing sums for retirement. After that, we'll be past caring about all we own save each other, hand to hand, and what we may have stored from the grind, grit, from gratifying sweet instances, compounded through desire and will. Tick tick goes the time clock. I hear it in the recent statements of our industry, collected fast in a binder like a rebuke.
Gardner McFall is the author of The Pilot's Daughter (1996), a collection of poems, and the editor of Made With Words, a prose miscellany by May Swenson. Copyright © 2003 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. The Atlantic Monthly; January/February 2003; Love Work; Volume 291, No. 1; 154. |
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