San
Souci
by Mary Brown
by Mary Brown
I
am a large quiet bird
I
am a newly washed window
opening
onto the loveliest fog
I
am a comma, a saga that needs
no
hero, a long movement adagio
a
mime, silver faced and unphased
I
am a loose, gauzy gown
I
am a giver unable to begrudge
anyone
anything, sweetly disabled
by
the others in this roomy moment
I
am petals unfolded
species
unidentified
I
am an elegant cursive
ink
looped in coos
Slowed,
I yearn only for what
I
already hold, arms unburdened
I
am a casket, a pocket, a cup
I
am a coin unspent
content
just to be saved
Mary
M. Brown
lives and writes in Anderson, Indiana. She taught literature and
creative writing at Indiana Wesleyan University for many years. Her
poetry appears on the Poetry Foundation and American Life in Poetry
websites, in Plough, Third Wednesday, Quiddity, JJournal, and many
other journals and magazines.