”Poetry in the Parks”

~ Elizabeth

The park banner has just an excerpt of the poem. Here I am sharing the full text. In my next post I will explore the project in full.

What It Looks Like To Us and the Words We Use
BY ADA LIMÓN
All these great barns out here in the outskirts,
black creosote boards knee-deep in the bluegrass.
They look so beautifully abandoned, even in use.
You say they look like arks after the sea’s
dried up, I say they look like pirate ships,
and I think of that walk in the valley where
J said, You don’t believe in God? And I said,
No. I believe in this connection we all have
to nature, to each other, to the universe.
And she said, Yeah, God. And how we stood there,
low beasts among the white oaks, Spanish moss,
and spider webs, obsidian shards stuck in our pockets,
woodpecker flurry, and I refused to call it so.
So instead, we looked up at the unruly sky,
its clouds in simple animal shapes we could name
though we knew they were really just clouds.
disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.

11 thoughts on “”Poetry in the Parks””

    1. I didn’t realize that the little thing in the corner was to take a picture with your phone to open the whole poem. I wonder if it’s just because I am unaware of how to use the bar code thing. Maybe other people do use that.

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