Her Husband Jacob Buys Gala A Ladder

July 13, 2008

for her birthday…
its very practical

And the diamonds lay unused, ignored, in the jewelry box
strung on silver ropes
chains that tangle and look like spiderwebs

trapping dew- now where did he see that little excerpt
about the dew collectors that fired his imagination
with little firework pictures going off in his brain

pop pop
pop POP pop

little gadgets that collect the rain and feed
the tender shoots of plants- it would WORK

he thinks gleefully.

Gala climbs her new ladder, cleans gutters
Jacob thinks of stringing wire or maybe fishing net
to keep the leaves from damming up the flow

and how pretty it would look
the dew strung on the net
like diamonds.