One of the delights of the Poetry Box is discovering other people who post poems each day or week, mostly on blogs and journals they keep sometimes for years. And thus, the delight of discovering poems I might not have found otherwise. Gary Soto’s poem “Oranges” is among my favorites and I never teach a poetry workshop without including it. But I didn’t know “How Things Work” before now, and now its quirky fun conversationalist lines will forever be part of me.
“If we buy a goldfish, someone tries on a hat.
If we buy crayons, someone walks home with a broom.”
