"I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms"
----Wallace Stevens
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird"
Brian Dion
Brian Dion's
poetry has appeared in The Grolier Poetry Prize Annual, The Raintown
Review, Candelabrum, and online in The Barefoot
Muse and The Shit Creek Review. He was nominated
for a Pushcart
Prize in 2007. Brian is active in Community Theater and was
the recipient of a Best
Supporting Actor Award at the 2007 EMACT Drama Festival. He
lives in Massachusetts, near the banks of the Sauus
River with his wife and daughter.
Brian Dion
Some Things Can Wait
"A butterfly! A butterfly!"
"A moth," I think aloud.
"A
butt-er-fly," my daughter scolds,
obstinate and proud.
"A
butterfly," I then concede.
I won't explain today,
but wait until
she's tucked in bed
to go and get the spray.
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© 2008 David Landrum