The king sky
wants us all
to bow
today.
The flowers
mercilessly pelted
by the machine-gun rain.
The wind’s
mighty whip
walloping branches
–trees waving like waves.
A lost horizon
whitened,
split by lightning,
brings
to ground
thunder rumbling
–shivering window panes.
The king sky
wants us all
to bow
today.
The flowers
mercilessly pelted
by the machine-gun rain.
The wind a whip
walloping the atmosphere
trees waving like waves.
clouds crowding clouds
split by stark lightning
brings to ground rumbling
shivering window panes.
I dream of wild flowers scattered
across summer dresses
and moving rivers shattering afternoon light.
I dream of colour:
the world exploding into sunflowers.
God’s palette
is a sweeping meadow
and girl’s laughter.
I dream of jagged shores breaking waves
from which great symphonies arrive.
The Earth is not dead
beneath all this death.
Come
come closer
you far away light.
The geese flying above
form an arrow
and when I turn around
-a V.
I kick an old flyer
onto the road.
The wind blows it
right back.
Debris has conquered the streets
-trash unleashed from ice like artifacts-
as across the lawns
the mounds of snow
have melted down
to last November.
Only after
a dreadfully long winter
is the sound of rain
such fine music.
A great winter has swept
blue through the city.
Stark frowns in cold sunlight.
Every lawn a pyramid
of old snow.
Warped roads
filled with holes
have warped minds.
Time hangs lifelessly
across the perimeters
of the night days.
Soon
melted deposits
into the high river
will run
right across your lives.
The air is changing
me
embracing temperature
I smile and welcome
a sole robin
to my yard
maybe the first.
Hello, old friend.
It’s been so long.
Hello.
Beneath the frozen ground
I can see summer.
I heard it was coming
in the loose gossip
buoyantly floating
around town.
I had a dream
that leaves were climbing
back upon the trees
like little green soldiers.
Soon,
all the birds
will come back
all at once
and the girls
laughing
will break out the
thin loud dresses
from the closet cobwebs.
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