The Mind

Advice to a Butter-Cup

by Maxwell Bodenheim 1892–1954

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.

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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