Spoons or Rakes – Hiram Larew

What we need now

is glow…

The sort of night that embers make

The sound in nests

or apples’ shapes

A glow that gives more than it takes

The kind of spoons or rakes

or that neighbors love

Those hailing lights from distant shores

that warm the boats

We need the wool of passing years

or more

What holding close does

when so little is near

Copyright 2020 Hiram Larew

An earlier version of this poem appeared in North of Oxford’s Pandemic Poetry Online Anthology

Bio:

Hiram Larew’s poems have appeared widely and have been nominated for four Pushcarts.  His Poetry X Hunger initiative is bringing poets and poetry to the anti-hunger cause.  He lives in Churchton, MD.  On Facebook at Hiram Larew, Poet.

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