Poetry has been <br />delicate crystal <br />preciously placed <br />quaint curio, glass and brass <br />the far right corner <br />pedestal and candle <br />high above the mantle <br />fine for show and <br />after dinner chit-chat <br />champagne and caviar but <br />so awkwardly <br />out of reach <br />impossibly difficult to <br />take down <br />grit and fingernail <br />where <br />a tattered page <br />corners cut <br />to mark <br />great passages. <br /> <br /> <br />(Previously published in The Alley, May 2001)<br /><br />Laurence Overmire<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/glass-houses-3/
