Today's poem is by Meredith Stricker

I'm Making an Inventory of the World
       

things you can buy and things you cannot:
                        waves, dish-drainer, tree frog who moves
into the open when the rain comes

        how the proportions have changed — how rare, resistant
                the unbuyable has become

yellow flowered fennel covered in road dust
you can't pay for the dust, it comes for free
the roar of crickets on a back road —
what would you pay for this
night and its impenetrable
avalanche of stars

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Copyright © 2024 Meredith Stricker All rights reserved
from Rewild
Tupelo Press
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission