Lost Poem At the reading one of the poets announced that she had lost a poem. Could any of us help her find it? Please be on the lookout. I've lost poems of my own over the years. Sometimes the Muse dropped by when I was busy, Or the phone would ring at an inopportune time. Be the reasons as they may, I could relate to her loss. So I kept my eyes open. There! See that spider weaving her web, Strands glimmering in the moonlight? Is she spinning them from lines of the poem? Are those cloud-like bits of it adrift high in the night sky? And are the katydids playing word games with what's left? I'm afraid that poem has been scattered to the four winds. We will never recapture it all. But I can hope that the best of it will find its way Into other poems By other poets Who chance to be luckier than we. -- Thomas G. Digby 23:05 Fri September 1 2006 13:55 Fri September 22 2006