Wish

By Bruce Covey Bruce Covey

Tune yr sandwich to the key of C

Make biscuits in kitchen B

Miss Scarlet with her lead pipe

Waits behind the cupboard door

Clubs one from the other limp

Only to begin again innocent

& nothing to do but gather into

Legion gather into constellation

Coming along then a spider its web

Holds the walls together holds the floor

Up gathers toward a central point

Mean & distribution derivation

To insert a thumb & see what sticks

Past the earth’s crust cirrus

And acidic enough to spoon fork but

Chew & eat & swallow digesting the fact

That nine wonders hope the clouds have

Answers hope the clouds have

Bruce Covey, "Wish" from Glass Is Really A Liquid. Copyright © 2010 by Bruce Covey. Reprinted by permission of Bruce Covey.

Source: Glass Is Really A Liquid (No Tell Books LLC, 2010)

Biography

The son of two chemists, poet and editor Bruce Covey was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and educated at Yale University, where he earned an MA in English literature. Influenced by John Ashbery and Ron Padgett, Covey’s poems often utilize narrative and sequence, sometimes engaging found text, with both playfulness and urgency. Reviewing Glass Is Really a Liquid for the Rumpus, Weston Cutter noted that Covey’s poems “make sense, . . .

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