Small Boy with New-Born Kittens
Small Boy with New-Born Kittens
By Katherine Fernelius Larsen
He kneels, hands still for once, enrapt
Above the mother and her five;
Wondering at the squirming things
So small and softly warm – alive!
He moves one finger just to touch,
Then runs on urgent feet to tell …
Only to find words not enough
For his first miracle!
(1948)
What a delightful little poem. I love the near-rhyme on tell & miracle, as if that incomplete rhyme is also “not enough” just like the boy’s words. (Though I’m sure plenty when quoting in a sing-song voice would say “mir-a-KELL”…)
Comment by Paul — December 6, 2012 @ 3:30 pm
It does seem to both need a second stanza, and yet be complete without it.
Comment by Julia — December 6, 2012 @ 8:57 pm