History Is Lazy Today
The world does what it does
as I do what I do.
Cars and trucks labor across
the highway bridge, birds
display their aerodynamics
over the construction site.
History is lazy today, resting
against a tall building, checking
out well before nightfall. Perhaps
we will be able to sleep
with the bedroom door wide open.
Tim Suermondt’s sixth full-length book of poems, A Doughnut and The Great Beauty of the World, came out in 2023 from MadHat Press. His seventh collection, A Day in the Republic, will be coming out soon from Dos Madres Press. He has published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, The Georgia Review, and Plume, among other journals. He lives in Cambridge (MA) with his wife, the poet Pui Ying Wong.
