Spontaneous Generation

by Elaine Equi

Luminous flank
cut from darkness

floating free
as a new century

where the young
are implacable

and the old are crazy
and do as they please.

How did a silent movie
give birth to a nation?

How did a mouse, a shirt,
and a few grains

of wheat grow up
to be the president?

From: 
Sentences and Rain





Last updated February 23, 2023