salt-sensitive

ok, so i have read a few of the billy collin's poems online...there are few because on his own webpage he charges for single downloads.....as well he should as a poet....but this one was at a poetry site....and i post it because i found the connection to my salt-craving tendencies so essential....

Design
by Billy Collins

I pour a coating of salt on the table
and make a circle in it with my finger.
This is the cycle of life
I say to no one.
This is the wheel of fortune,
the Arctic Circle.
This is the ring of Kerry
and the white rose of Tralee
I say to the ghosts of my family,
the dead fathers,
the aunt who drowned,
my unborn brothers and sisters,
my unborn children.
This is the sun with its glittering spokes
and the bitter moon.
This is the absolute circle of geometry
I say to the crack in the wall,
to the birds who cross the window.
This is the wheel I just invented
to roll through the rest of my life
I say
touching my finger to my tongue.

Billy Collins, “Design” from The Art of Drowning. Copyright © 1995 by Billy Collins. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press, www.pitt.edu/~press/.

Source: The Art of Drowning (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995).

centre college- newlin hall 8:00 pm november 2, 2006.....if i lecture on std's quickly i can make this special recitation........