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The Last Thing by Ada Limón - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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The Last Thing - First there was the blue wing

The Last Thing Add to anthology × Ada Limón 1976 - First there was the blue wing of a scraggly loud jay tucked into the shrubs. Then the bluish- black moth drunkenly tripping from blade to blade. Then the quiet that came roaring in like the R. J. Corman over Broadway near the RV shop. These are the last three things that happened. Not in the universe, but here, in the basin of my mind, where I’m always making a list for you, recording the day’s minor urchins: silvery dust mote, pistachio shell, the dog eating a sugar snap pea. It’s going to rain soon, close clouds bloated above us, the a

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