TOO BUSY
(A
marriage scene)
Caught in
this dizzy maze
of
doings and goings, we calculate
our
overcrowded days
in
childrens’ cries and serpentine
demands -- curators of a vast
disorderly
museum.
Like steers
in
springtime, switching tails at flies,
drawn
by each stem and blade of grass
at once, we pass each other
jostling
by, absorbed observers
otherwise
preoccupied.
Head
down in details, who’d suspect
the
smothered passions
bovine
snuffl’ings reflect?
Woodrose (Beloit College), 1979