raisins

8 June 2006 at 3:26 am (1970, Poetry, Undated)

all it takes to make a raisin
is a nice plump grape
a nice hot sun
and time
time makes raisins
                          of us all

1 Comment

  1. Best Blog on WordPress » Happy Father’s Day From Saturday Morning Blogroll said,

    18 June 2006 at 10:24 am

    [...] They’re good poems. I especially like the one about the statute of Christopher Columbus. And Raisins. Some of them are funny, and some of them are a little sad. As the father says, “knowledge/is/sadness.” [...]

  2. Jonathan (son #3) said,

    29 June 2006 at 12:38 pm

    This poem also appears in the steno notebook labeled “The Shadow Box”. The only difference is “of us all” is not on a separate line.

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