Monday, May 20, 2019

Sun (Monday Poem)

by Valerie Worth


The sun
Is a leaping fire
Too hot
To go near,

But it will still
Lie down
In warm yellow squares
On the floor

Like a flat
Quilt, where
The cat can curl
And purr.



from All the Small Poems and Fourteen More
by Valerie Worth
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1994

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