Conversing with Hayden

Conversing with Hayden (Carruth)

How much I value this friendship!

I raise my glass of ice-cold chardonnay.

—Hayden Carruth from “Conversing” p29 Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey

An old man before my time
and sans the wisdom of greybeards

 

I toss my two cents on the smooth surface,
break the waters of your docile pond. Frogs croak

 

their songs regardless. And you,
you speak to me of my own madness

 

across years and distances never reached
over but by poets in boats of verse.

 

David M Pitchford
25 April 2009