After Reverdy
By Ron Padgett
I would never have wanted to see your sad face again
Your cheeks and your windy hair
I went all across the country
Under this humid woodpecker
Day and night
Under the sun and the rain
Now we are face to face again
What does one say to my face
Once I rested up against a tree
So long
I got stuck to it
That kind of love is terrible
Ron Padgett, "After Reverdy" from Collected Poems. Copyright © 2013 by Ron Padgett. Reprinted by permission of Coffee House Press. www.coffeehousepress.org
Source:
Collected Poems
(Coffee House Press, 2013)
