GUIDE’S SONG

Don’t tell strangers
where to look.
Let their sight
fall on what’s
before them.

Don’t tell visitors
where not to look.
They may turn away
when they wish.
They won’t go blind.

Lead your guests
to a red bridge.
Let sun pour
down like honey.
Let them lick it up.

Mark J. Mitchell has been a working poet for 50 years. He’s the author of five full-length collections, and six chapbooks. His latest collection is Something To Be from Pski’s Porch Publishing. A novel that includes some poetry, A Book of Lost Songs is due out next Spring. He’s fond of baseball, Louis Aragon, Dante, and his wife, activist Joan Juster. He lives in San Francisco where he points out pretty things.