[I want a smaller thing in mind] | Day 12

[I want a smaller thing in mind]

I want a smaller thing in mind 

Like a good dinner

I’m tired of these big things happening

They happen to me all the time

- Joanne Kyger, 2007

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I think this poem is close to perfect. I don’t have anything to add.

Like a good dinner,

Jess

* Today’s poem is also courtesy of Sonia’s Poem of the Week. She noted that this poem is from Kyger’s book About Now (National Poetry Foundation, 2007), which appears to no longer be in print.