Today's poem is by Arthur Sze
Midnight Loon
Burglars enter an apartment and ransack drawers;
finding neither gold nor cash, they flee,leaving the laundry and bathroom lights on
they have fled themselves. I catch the dippingpitch of a motorcycle, iceberg hues in clouds;
the gravel courtyard's a midnight garden,as in Japan, raked to resemble ocean waves
in moonshine, whirlpool eddies, circular ripplesand nothing is quite what it appears to be.
When I unlatch the screen door, a snakeslides under the weathered decking; I spot
the jagged hole edged with glass where a burglarreached through the window, but no one
marks the poplars darker with thunder and rain.In moonlight I watch the whirlpool hues
of clouds drift over our courtyard, adobe walls,and gate, and, though there is no loon,
a loon calls out over the yard, over the water.
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