Leonard Nathan An Answer of Sorts Born to the suburbs, Born to this wasteful middleclass life, A neighbor sings in her small backyard, As if she were in a procession To the temple. She has simply forgotten herself In the roses. Let her be. Let her be. Leonard Nathan, Carrying On: New and Selected Poems, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. Whole Wide World An Anthology of Poems Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)
An Answer of Sorts
Born to the suburbs, Born to this wasteful middleclass life, A neighbor sings in her small backyard, As if she were in a procession To the temple. She has simply forgotten herself In the roses. Let her be. Let her be.
Leonard Nathan, Carrying On: New and Selected Poems, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985.