Poems and Haiku
Bamboo They say bamboo grows so fast it will rise through a man's heart in a day or two It must have been like that for him the bamboo still there rising into the sky or as a child I thought it did it was very tall by then their daughter was a cancer researcher at NIH directing her anger at the bamboo still there rising into the sky the house, the lawn, the bamboo, clearly in her hand stilled like a museum, they took me through to see the old toys left in the box everything seemed to stop ten years before I was born the bamboo still there rising into the sky They say bamboo grows so fast it will rise through a man's heart in a day or two It must have been like that for him Steve Knoblock, September 2009