It’s not the enormity
Of the half-eaten doughnut
That squirrel’s hauling
Up its tree
As much as it is
Just how small
The whole endeavor
Looks to us
After it’s gotten there
It’s not the enormity
Of the half-eaten doughnut
That squirrel’s hauling
Up its tree
As much as it is
Just how small
The whole endeavor
Looks to us
After it’s gotten there
Noah Eli Gordon lives in Denver and teaches in the MFA Program at CU–Boulder, where he currently directs Subito Press. His books include The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2015) and Novel Pictorial Noise (Harper Perennial, 2007), which was selected by John Ashbery for the National Poetry Series and subsequently chosen for the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award.
image: Jackson Pollock
