Give Me This by Ada Limón - Poems | Academy of American Poets
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Give Me This - I thought it was the neighbor’s cat back
Give Me This Add to anthology × Load audio player Ada Limón 1976 - I thought it was the neighbor’s cat back to clean the clock of the fledgling robins low in their nest stuck in the dense hedge by the house but what came was much stranger, a liquidity moving all muscle and bristle. A groundhog slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still green in the morning’s shade. I watched her munch and stand on her haunches taking such pleasure in the watery bites. Why am I not allowed delight? A stranger writes to request my thoughts on suffering. Barbed wire pulled out of the mouth, as if demand
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