from One Big Self ["Count your fingers"]
Count your fingers
Count your toes
Count your nose holes
Count your blessings
Count your stars (lucky or not)
Count your loose change
Count the cars at the crossing
Count the miles to the state line
Count the ticks you pulled off the dog
Count your calluses
Count your shells
Count the points on the antlers
Count the newjack’s keys
Count your cards; cut them again
From One Big Self (Copper Canyon Press, 2007). Copyright © 2007 by C. D. Wright. Used with permission of Copper Canyon Press and The Permissions Company.