Wind through the leaves on the trees A breeze through a field of grass Wind blowing a freeze Through a freezing mountain pass Wind teasing the leaves Teasing the leaves on the walk The deceased brown leaves, teased to pieces Dried as dry as chalk Wind in the chimes, animating Suffocating Wind talk Wind in five sails; wind wails Wailing through night alleyways Flapping a flag, clapping the clothes, Whistling over a line Wind roaring over car windshield Jangling empty cans for wine Angering oceans, threatening land Taunting the beach houses housed in the sand Beating their stilts Pulling their guilt through the days Airplanes pulling, pulling up on the breeze-ways. A sigh The wind that ruffled your hair when you said Unreachable Gusts of particles beating against the earth’s magnetic field A silent storm – a green yield. I watch the wind blowing the rain-stained flyers tacked on the bulletin board The wind carrying the rain-stained geese out of the fjord. The wind that makes the clouds move across the sky when I lay alone with my muddy eyes, on a stark day, looking up for answers The wind is drowning out your reply It forces me to dry my tears with my hair By tugging my hair away from my eyes If I could know where the wind comes from And where it is going And if I could come…
Month: February 2013
knowing gray

I walked with fireflies on the haze which glows dull orange, lit below, by city lights that gleam and blaze the color of a fire on snow. the satellites sketch lonely ways and dust burns in the atmosphere a fitting death of sparks and rays - dust travels far to die out here. its monochrome gives way to hue my sky dissolves from black to blue these miles remind me of what’s true I know the gray now, through and through.
[Featured Image: Descent of the Soyuz TMA-14M by Bill Ingalls]