poem about a table?

“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—“

–Emily Dickinson

in the center where the people

should be is a red and white

checked cloth which covers the

dining room table where the

parent is working. the parent

has cut up the picture in order

to save space in the sticky

plastic-covered pages of the

family photograph album.

i want to write a poem about

this picture with a hole in the

center where the family should

be, but the parent says i should

write about something else.

perhaps then this is not a poem

about the picture. perhaps it’s

not the picture that’s important.

perhaps it’s the table.

think about the table.

10 thoughts on “poem about a table?”

Very deep and wonderful. Today, I will think about the table.

Thanks! Now I can’t get the darn table out of my head! 🙂

Definitely thought-provoking.

Well written and lingering. Just what a good poem should be. Love the tablecloth image. I will be thinking of the table till dinnertime.

Wow. I’m thinking about the table. You are good.

Kathryn M. McCullough