Wanting Always Interrupts Being
“Wanting always interrupts being,”
Wrote Yung Pueblo.
I agree.
We want so much
And forget how to be
Like the horse saddles
in the red barn
That never collect dust
Or the robins
That never miss a chance
To bathe in a spring rain.
So is it really a pity
When a thick fog covers the hills
And blocks out the sun?
Or when an absent moon
Exposes exploding stars?
Or what about a field of grass
Too wet for children to play,
But parched from summer’s sun?
Seven burning candles,
shaped as pears
For every day you thought
you’d never make it.
A Collection of Poems
Corey Michael Hines is a Brooklyn-based writer and poet with roots spread across the American South. He received his BFA in Writing from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2014 and has been featured in Volume Poetry, Artemis, le NAVIGATEUR, and Oxford American’s Eyes on the South.
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