Drifting

                                                                               Lyn Lifshin


 
                                                                       things I have and

                                                                       don’t have

                                                                       come from this

                                                                       moving between

                                                                       people like

                                                                       smoke. I’ve been

                                                                       waiting the way

                                                                       milkweed I

                                                                       brought inside two

                                                                       years ago stays

                                                                       suspended, hair in the

                                                                       wind it seems to

                                                                       float, even its

                                                                       black seeds don’t

                                                                       pull it down

                                                                       tho you don’t under

                                                                       stand how any

                                                                       thing could stay

                                                                       that way

                                                                       so long