Showing posts with label poetry Kay Allen well cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry Kay Allen well cup. Show all posts

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Where is my cup?

I love this poem from our new Poet Laureate, Kay Allen-

How can
you tell
at the start
what you
can give away
and what
you must hold
to your heart.
What is
the well
and what is
a cup. Some
people get
drunk up.

("The Well or the Cup" from “The Niagara River,” 2005.)