Lower Your Standards - Trout Black

[Larry Robinson]

Lower Your Standards
 
 
Bill Stafford
continues to encourage me.
“Lower your standards,” he says.
 
I try.
 
But this morning,
just when I thought
I had them good and lowered,
 
an Anna’s hummingbird
popped at the bottom of his dive,
just three feet above my head,
 
and the woman next door
began yelling
at her husband again.

	- Trout Black
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