Someone Else's Art

Mommy's Nintendo at the Itsy Bitsy Monkey reminds us that National Poetry Month only has about a week left. She has posted several nice poems, the one I've linked to above is a delightful as the coming and going of waves themselves.

I don't have the quick agility with poetry as she does. But I recently bought a book called Something Permanent that is very nice--it's a collection of Walker Evans photography accompanied by poems by Cynthia Rylant. Here's an example of one I like very much.

Hitchhiker

He told her that if she'd come with him

they could stay at his sister's in Vicksburg

then catch the Greyhound north for Pennsylvania,

and maybe there he'd

find work and they'd make it some way.

She asked how was he going to buy

two bus tickets to Pittsburgh

when he didn't have even a dime, and he said

he'd offer to drive the bus halfway,

and this made some kind of desperate sense to her

so she went.

Here are some other photos of Evans. . . do any of them inspire you to write?