#621 - grateful again

 

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grateful again

poem for Lou Young

 

and to whom (?) one asks

tank spirit?

sky fairy projection?

or

elements themselves?

 

rain’s an old trick

sky’s first to learn

 

all prayers stamped

‘return to sender’

 

a sodden rise

and foliage furl

 

hide in a crevice

out peer

 

for rain

and shine after

rise crops of an incantation

rose tangle

all of us to glisten gleam

 

it’s then the damp birds sing to me

 

when it comes to the music

I always know whom to thank