Stealing Things From Kindergarten Poem by Robert Rorabeck

It turned out that something happened along
The sky.
I was sweating, but not going home, but
Roaming-
The fire was chasing the foals beneath me-
And the blue cats had gone to sleep underneath
The broken down school buses-
If there was a greater vision, it was a long ways
Off,
And the briars of the zoos kept me at a distance:
There was Mexico, and her brown body cajoling,
Like a different species-
A goddess of milkweeds; and I was only stealing
Things from kindergarten-
There she was across a great ocean,
Causing a sky to burn with tears.