selected poems of Arlen
Riley Wilson

For a Ladies's Magazine

c 1970

		
		
		Dear is my family,
			dear my home,
			  and yet
		I like to leave
			at times
			  my tended garden, trimly hedged,
		to watch unruly things that grow
			and go and tramp alone
			  to watch the violet
		in deep of woods
			unplanned
			  and rest my head upon moist weeds,
		disown all wordly cares.
			And, as I do,
			  at level with my eyes I see
		around the violet there is
			dogshit
			  which would be alright, too,
		except a war is coming
			and I have no place to hide
			   my children





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