Jigsaw
by James Graham
Posted: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 Word Count: 80 Summary: Poets have been mysteriously silent about jigsaw puzzles. |
Jigsaw
I like the ones with trees.
This piece has three delicate twigs,
one like a long S, another
bent like a skeleton’s elbow,
against a half-blue, half-white sky.
This has only sky and four
leaf-bits. It needs its neighbours.
This is a portion of beech-trunk
with two spots of lichen
like eyes and a streak like a nose
but no mouth. It’s good
to build a tree. Better still
to look at a living tree,
see its thousand pieces.
I like the ones with trees.
This piece has three delicate twigs,
one like a long S, another
bent like a skeleton’s elbow,
against a half-blue, half-white sky.
This has only sky and four
leaf-bits. It needs its neighbours.
This is a portion of beech-trunk
with two spots of lichen
like eyes and a streak like a nose
but no mouth. It’s good
to build a tree. Better still
to look at a living tree,
see its thousand pieces.