Sunday, September 4, 2016

Zavalla, Texas - poem


Lawrence Hall




Zavalla, Texas



In Zavalla, Texas, an old café

Beside the two-lane blacktop through the pines

Even the setting sun seems summer-tired

Aslant across an open page of Keats



The old men political over their coffee

Are silent suddenly, a surprise to all

The oldest shuffles over on his cane

And asks suspiciously “What are you?”



What are you? Each man asks that of himself

In Zavalla, or wherever he happens to be

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