Content

by David Ignatow

I should be content

to look at a mountain

for what it is

and not as a comment

on my life.

From Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994, Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press, 1994, page 45. Originally from Say Pardon, Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press, 1961. +