A Lake Explodes
by Linda Bamber
I love you as a lake explodes
and water smacks the undersides
of overhanging trees
I love you as white chicken stew loves onions
and mushrooms;
and carrots, yum!
I love you as an airplane takes its shadow
for a giant fish –
just us between the ocean and the sky
I love you as a real black stone
sits calmly in the Buddha’s lap
surrounded by bushes in need of a trim
I love you as the world makes a point
of equally loving us all
but especially me. You, too.
Especially you.
and water smacks the undersides
of overhanging trees
I love you as white chicken stew loves onions
and mushrooms;
and carrots, yum!
I love you as an airplane takes its shadow
for a giant fish –
just us between the ocean and the sky
I love you as a real black stone
sits calmly in the Buddha’s lap
surrounded by bushes in need of a trim
I love you as the world makes a point
of equally loving us all
but especially me. You, too.
Especially you.
Linda Bamber is a poet and Professor of English at Tufts University. Both her poetry collection, Metropolitan Tang, and her fiction collection, Taking What I Like, were published by David R. Godine. Bamber’s work has appeared in periodicals such as The Harvard Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, The New York Times Book Review, The Kenyon Review, The Florida Review, Plume and The Missouri Review. Her scholarly book on Shakespeare was published by Stanford University Press. She is currently writing a novella based on the cross-country expedition of Lewis and Clark.