kenyon

from BURNING (ANDANTE NON TROPPO)
by Jack Gilbert

" . . . A thousand years ago when they built the gardens
of Kyoto, the stones were set in the streams askew.
Whoever went quickly would fall in. When we slow,
the garden can choose what we notice. Can Change
our heart. On the wall of a toilet in Rock Springs
years ago there was a dispenser that sold tubes of
cream to numb a man's genitals. Called Linger."