Getting a Word In
By James Galvin
Very sad,
Having to
Come out of nowhere,
The rain
We’ve been waiting for
Is waiting too.
Trees,
By now,
Have had enough daylight.
They’d like,
Please,
To sleep it off.
If nothing
Else, nothing
Else.
Behind our backs
Things mean themselves.
Violins crack
From wanting to exist.
It’s hard, getting a word in.
I’m waiting
To arrive inside my clothes,
If nothing else,
Willing
To be (having to
Come out of nowhere)
Very sad.
Copyright Credit: James Galvin, “Getting a Word In” from Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997. Copyright © 1997 by James Galvin. Used by permission of Copper Canyon Press, www.coppercanyonpress.org.
Source: Resurrection Update (Copper Canyon Press, 1997)