#MIDDLEBURY
Time I’m Not Here
Graham Foust
All day on all my days,
the lives I’m not to process wash in;
anxieties lullaby on
and quite like to be gotten among;
but now – and now – one old,
abundant flower just screws up the room.
About this poem
“I’m not always so keen on notes to poems, but it might amuse the reader to know that I wrote this poem in the middle of the night after my coffee table collapsed, which terrified me, and which caused a vase of flowers that should’ve been thrown away days earlier – they were dry and smelled badly – to spill onto the floor.” – Graham Foust
About Graham Foust
Graham Foust is the author of “Time Down to Mind” (Flood Editions, 2015). He works at the University of Denver and lives in Denver.
The Academy of American Poets is a nonprofit, mission-driven organization, whose aim is to make poetry available to a wider audience. Email The Academy at poem-a-day@poets.org.
(c) 2016 Graham Foust. Originally published in Poem-a-Day, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
