What Was Once the Largest Shopping Center in Northern Ohio Was Built Where There Had Been a Pond I Used to Visit Every Summer Afternoon
Loving
the earth, seeing what has been close to it,
I
grow sharp, I grow cold.
Where
will the trilliums go to continue living
their
simple penniless lives, lifting
their
faces of gold?
Impossible
to believe we need so much
as
the world wants to buy.
I
have more clothes, lamps, dishes, paper clips
than
I could possibly use before I die.
Oh,
I would like to live in an empty house,
with
vines for walls, and a carpet of grass.
No
planks, no plastic, no fiberglass.
And I suppose sometime I will.
Old and cold I will lie apart
from all this buying and selling, with only
the beautiful earth in my heart.
Oliver,
Mary. “What Was Once the Largest Shopping Center in Northern Ohio Was Built
Where There Had Been a Pond I Used to Visit Every Summer Afternoon.” Why I
Wake Early. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2004. p.36.
