Tuesday, April 23, 2024

no limb nor cone wind taketh (2016)

  

---wind unseen takes form in snarling havoc

on a dormant volcano monadnock,

     rousing rabble to a fevered pitch

     jostling trash bins, putting ice on every hitch,


          testing hinges and humpday's saddle

          frostbitten reins in canoe sans paddle,

pushing what into where, whistling creaks

draw chaos---------& order speaks,


     ice motes drive or dally floating haphazard

     crow high, my perch perfect for such blizzard

          yesterday pulled pavers, made patterns

          undone thoughts, austere as a lecturn,


and so unlike the fir, unfurling wildly thrashing air

yet losing no limb nor cone, debonair

    as a stunt cosmos doing its own unravelings

    under silver laced mist, given body in sculpted hobblings,


          slowed to a point of stasis

          upon which reality has basis

wind everseen, how clean a forest floor at night,

            ages-tested branches, embodying might.      





Mt Tabor Oregon 12-8-16

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