On the Same Page: October 2009

A House of Readers

By Jim Wayne Miller

At 9:42 on this May morning
the children's rooms are concentrating too.
Like a tendril growing toward the sun, Ruth
moves her book into a wedge of light
that settles on the floor like a butterfly.
She turns a page.
Fred is immersed in magic, cool
as a Black Angus belly-deep in a farm pond.

The only sounds: pages turning softly.
This is the quietness
of bottomland where you can hear only the young corn growing, where a little breeze stirs the blades
and then breathes in again.

I mark my place. I listen like a farmer in the rows.

from The Mountains Have Come Closer, 1980 ©

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