Remember how I was going to post more this year?
Yeah. My bad.
Anyway, today is Poem In Your Pocket Day (Thanks for the tip, Kari). I didn’t know that was today until I was already home, but as soon as I found out I knew what poem I would pick. It’s my favorite poem ever and it’s by one of my favorite Poetry/Prose Auteurs, Wendell Berry. It’s called A Warning To My Readers
Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world. I am
a man crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant,
stubborn, angry, full
of fits and furies. That I
may have spoken well
at times, is not natural.
A wonder is what it is.