Barry Seiler
Glass
Around the base you feel
a series of indentations.
They may be the fingerprints
of a fugitive who paused
a moment, search dogs
at his heels, spying
in a kitchen window a fresh
baked apple pie. This
is not the glass of memory,
of cavorting cartoon characters
frozen in mad pursuit, filled
to the brim with milk. Still,
it is a glass, your glass,
here in your hand,
and it only wants to do for you.
Bio
Barry Seiler has published four books of poetry, three of them by University of Akron Press. Frozen Falls, the most recent, was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. He appears in the recent anthology New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confronting the Holocaust.