| Stephen Paul Miller Poem for Noah |
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| A buffalo looks in the mirror. Sure he'll see himself But a city gets in the way. A puppy jumps out of the city. The buffalo looks closely and sees A silly goose building a nest inside the mirror. The goose's intensity overwhelms the buffalo. He is no one but himself And the buffalo can see, see, and see it. |
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| Stephen Paul Miller is the author of The Seventies Now (Duke University Press) and Art is Boring for the Same Reason We Stayed Out of Vietnam (Domestic Press) and co-editor of The Scene of My Selves: New Work on the New York School Poets (National Poetry Foundation). His poetry has been published in Talisman, Best American Poetry 1994, Columbia Review, Paterson, Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Poetry New York, B City and elsewhere. He is an associate professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. | |
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