Zócalo Public SquareVALLEY OF WANT – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 VALLEY OF WANT https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/05/19/ross-white-poem-valley-of-want/chronicles/poetry/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/05/19/ross-white-poem-valley-of-want/chronicles/poetry/#respond Wed, 19 May 2021 07:01:29 +0000 by Ross White https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=120116 I want & want & the moon
keeps blazing
orange in night sky.
Coyotes keep baying
to the gods who hide
the rabbits.
Like
lemmings & town drunks,
waterfalls keep throwing themselves
aqueously
over cliffs & I want.
Mushrooms tip
their purpling caps
as if daydreaming &
through all descending mists
I want & want. What
hunger. What salute
to desire
is this paddock in darkness,
swelling with the guttural urging
of toads &
symphonic creaking
the grasshoppers saw
from the teeth
of their legs.
I want all nights to be this
night & all nights to ache
with this want &
I want & want
& how
& how could I not.

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]]> I want & want & the moon
keeps blazing
orange in night sky.
Coyotes keep baying
to the gods who hide
the rabbits.
Like
lemmings & town drunks,
waterfalls keep throwing themselves
aqueously
over cliffs & I want.
Mushrooms tip
their purpling caps
as if daydreaming &
through all descending mists
I want & want. What
hunger. What salute
to desire
is this paddock in darkness,
swelling with the guttural urging
of toads &
symphonic creaking
the grasshoppers saw
from the teeth
of their legs.
I want all nights to be this
night & all nights to ache
with this want &
I want & want
& how
& how could I not.

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