Tuesday, November 18, 2008

my winter poem from assignment 11/18/08

Waiting

It's easy to know that when the horizon blackens,
something new is on the way, a dream rinsed
in yesterday's black mood. The sun spins away like a mad kite,
its light a shattered wine glass on the hearth. 
How can we mend visions of fuchsia and heather
when there is less and less, not a crumb to gather
for the table? And what of the plot to bury the yard
in shrouds of white? What witch cast that spell here?
What moth ate all the leaves we planted? Stay deaf and dumb,
wait for the sky to open again, to cast its bluest eye
on the yard again, to rouse the seeds that sleep now. Wait
as the bird waits on her egg. It is a season of windows.
Hear the nothing of falling snow. Wait. Watch the sky.

2 comments:

  1. Funny how all our lives can be summed up in one post. Life seems way more hectic than that. glad to see you are blogging.
    XOXO
    LaLa

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  2. I need to be better about posting to my blog... where does the time go?

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