26 February 2008 | Vol. 7, No. 4
Above the Roof
In black branches hanging
over the roof, four or five
crab apples, overripe. Even
when no one is looking, walls
exhibit images made by the troubled hands.
Response depends
on the observer's condition. As we are
& who we are becoming; at night
what startles me is not the apple
landing on the pitched roof,
but it's absence in the seconds it takes to fall
into the pile of dead leaves.
About the author:
Rob Schlegel's The Lesser Fields was selected for the 2009 Colorado Prize for Poetry. His work has appeared in New American Writing, Octopus, Volt, and elsewhere. He teaches writing in Iowa City where is co-editor of The Catenary Press.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Rob Schlegel at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 7, No. 4, where "Above the Roof" ran on February 26, 2008. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
