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Doug Anderson is the author of two books of poetry, plays, filmscripts, and fiction. His memoir, Don't Rub Your Eyes, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in 2009. He teaches creative writing at the University of Connecticut.
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SIMPLE
that petroglyph on a rock north of Tucson
you naked
if I were to shake all my words in a sifter
Shakespeare used 25000 threw away as many
our times are so full
they overflow the means to express
(history's backflow into itself up river
clouds the springs)
Galileo in the glow of the monitor
Akhmatova on Oprah
Achilles on a Harley
so make something big enough to speak to the largeness
or hole up
with a petroglyph
a rock slick with rain
a tomato cut just so
a basil leaf crushed
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