The Mind
Advice to a Butter-Cup
From Advice (1920)
The Mind
Undistinguished butter-cup
Lost among myriads of others,
To the red ant eyeing you
You are giant stillness.
He pauses on the boulder of a clod,
Baffled by your nearness to the sky.
But to the black loam at your feet
You are the atom of a pent-up dream.
Undistinguished butter-cup,
Take your little breath of contemplation,
Undisturbed by haughty tricks of space.
Cite this poem
MLA
Bodenheim, Maxwell. “Advice to a Butter-Cup.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bodenheim/4/.
Chicago
Bodenheim, Maxwell. “Advice to a Butter-Cup.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bodenheim/4/.
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