On the eighth day,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
someone, not God,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
created her drool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, this poem represents an ode to a woman\u2019s drool,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
perhaps the first one in the history<\/p>\n\n\n\n
of world literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s about time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remember the first time I saw it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She snorted with laughter,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
there it appeared, drool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She didn’t know it was there,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
no need to wipe it away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gone right there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019d never seen anything so beautifully haphazard: the hilarious saliva of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s a name for that. She should invent it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now look at us. Here we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thirty-one years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There’s no more time to waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s for procrastinators who have<\/p>\n\n\n\n
never walked a salmon-bearing stream on a freshet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
smelled a juniper gin and tonic gurgling downstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She told me about her one-tent stands<\/p>\n\n\n\n
with biologists in the wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s a book in them, perhaps even us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We just have to start living it together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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