FreeVerse ~ Linda Pastan

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I can thank Marion for introducing me to Linda Pastan's Carnival Evening . She featured the collection on her blog last summer in a post which included one of my favorite Pastan poems, The Bookstall. I followed with an entry of my own in the fall, sharing two more of her poems.

Here's another wonderful selection from Carnival Evening:

Egg

In this kingdom
the sun never sets;
under the pale oval
of the sky
there seems no way in
or out,
and though there is a sea here
there is no tide.

For the egg itself
is a moon
glowing faintly
in the galaxy of the barn,
safe but for the spoon's
ominous thunder,
the first delicate crack
of lightning.