Katherine LedererA New Way to Live
I am tired of forgiving like
At night. A forum for seriousness is like
An intervention. Please to be cast
As a serious aid like a pretty thing to the memory.
Like a belligerent thing in the memory true.
An attachment like trees is not like
a human attachment at all.
To hear a bell ring and then put a bell in it
Is like trees that hear the sun and then
Put a sun in it like thirst.
Poems by Katherine Lederer are forthcoming in The Body Electric: 25 Years of America's Best Poetry from The American Poetry Review 1975-2000, Verse: The Younger American Poets Issue, and the web magazine Jacket. She lives in Brooklyn.
