Let's learn to be mildly content;
and scratch at kitchen doors
without leaving claw marks.
and watch as spoons beget spoons
and milk dribbles down the granite
turning clear, curdling and mixing with dirt.
Let's stay still, motionless,
as we watch pairs of swans drift
on the plate-glass lakes.
The swans can drift;
their necks afforded them the option,
long and white and graceful,
like curved spoons.
Let's learn to be mildly content.
and scratch at kitchen doors
without leaving claw marks.
and watch as spoons beget spoons
and milk dribbles down the granite
turning clear, curdling and mixing with dirt.
Let's stay still, motionless,
as we watch pairs of swans drift
on the plate-glass lakes.
The swans can drift;
their necks afforded them the option,
long and white and graceful,
like curved spoons.
Let's learn to be mildly content.
This piece has been published in Teen Ink’s monthly print magazine.
This piece won the October 2009 Teen Ink Poetry Contest.
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