My Next Life
after Charles Simic
Let it be
for me
a blade of grass.
In I’ll slip
slim and green
as childhood.
Let me have
that single crease
to funnel dew,
nothing now
to prove,
the chance
this time around
to live on light.
Catherine Abbey Hodges is the author of four full-length poetry collections,
most recently Empty Me Full, and two chapbooks. Her first book, Instead of
Sadness, won the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize.