Friday, April 13, 2018

An Unremembered Poem

I dreamt that someone
read me a poem
I expected to remember
when I woke up—

sonnet-like,
containing
a seven-line
list of

chickens: Rhode Island Red,
Sussex, Plymouth Rock;
or maybe egg colors:

sky-blue, brown, reddish-brown;
and sizes from big to small.
But that wasn’t it.