Jun 1, 2008

 

 


Dearest Undying Love: icicle trees stalwart star stalking cloud;

Chittering leaves chuckling chattels of wind.
Here are roots exposed that that tree by river water drown
And dam
And overflow--
A slow and seemly constant caress.

Within the ivory maple boughs, an oriole surveys a robin's nest;

A plane turns toward the end of its flight.
Here there is a tensility of life against the wash of death
And thought
And whim--
Storm royalty roiling over field.

All signs of condemnation are condemned;

The rot ripened spring upstages all, self-beloved and undying.