Just Beyond Reason

Poems by Patrick Brancaccio

For Ruth

 
  Coming Out to Camp

Coming out to camp
I see a lady slipper
Solitary by the lake,
And, sitting on the deck,
I note an inchworm
On a leaf hunch up
And stretch out
Into space.

Inchworms
Lived only
In songs by
Danny Kaye,
I thought.
But then,
Hešs from
Brooklyn
Too.