new green leaves unfurl tentatively from last year’s dry brown canes
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a life incredible, vivid, excellent.
new green leaves unfurl tentatively from last year’s dry brown canes
Read Morethe rain hits the pavement with a steady splash
and shafts of lightning forewarn of thunder’s uneasy rumble
i noticed her face as he told her
“there was nothing we could do” —
saw the brightness fade, watched it crumple —
the winds scrapes rough on bleaching bone
and the whitened trunks of weathered trees
the fog hides in the hollows
Read Morewith skies of ash and waters of snow
we wonder where does the river go
there was a young woman who said
“it’s happened! the thing that i dread!”
at dawn death rolled back
Read Moremy love lies in darkness
Read Morein the poppy bed
there’s a stubborn weed
i never can seem to kill