Poetry: Samurai Song by Robert Pinsky

Samurai Song by Robert Pinsky, from Jersey Rain. © Farrar, Straus and Giroux

When I had no roof I made
Audacity my roof. When I had
No supper my eyes dined.

When I had no eyes I listened.
When I had no ears I thought.
When I had no thought I waited.

(via The Writer's Almanac)