Peggy Landsman
Not Carl Sandburg’s Fog
The fog is heavy inside me today.
Imagine an elephant the size of the moon!
That’s how heavy the fog.
And when it lifts and lets its feet fall
two at a time, two at a time,
the footprints that follow eclipse my mind’s eyes.
Blindly, I finger the holes in the heavens
that let my thinking worlds through.
Oh for a peanut! Oh for a tent!
An elephant driver next door!
Peggy Landsman is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Too Much World, Not Enough Chocolate (Nightingale & Sparrow Press, 2024), and the poetry chapbook Our Words, Our Worlds (Kelsay Books, 2021). She lives in South Florida within an easy drive of a beautiful beach and a good library. To learn more about her work, visit: peggylandsman.wordpress.com