Nothing Gold by Kim Addonizio | Poems Rethabile Likes

Nothing Gold

by Kim Addonizio

"Nothing gold can stay."
—Robert Frost

And nothing else can stay, either—
not the pay phone or parking meter,
not the coo and keck of the passenger
pigeon or the ambivalent lover
returning to his wife. A banner
saying Everything Must Go sags over
the failed restaurant supply store.
A plane takes off with a living brother
and lands with a dead one. Another
black car arrives at the gates. Dear
anyone, tell me how to hear
the sea's consoling murmur
as it withdraws, then savages the shore.
Tell me how to love the nevermore.

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Poet: @KimAddonizio
Online: @ONEARTpoetry
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