Sunday, February 28, 2021

Dearth

Busy, the humming insights,
The reordering in my head of
Those important reverberations 
Upon opening into 
Light, unexamined pathways

I begin to wonder 
I might say 
Wander toward, into a
Strange question:
Are your ponderings
The way a woman like you
Sensibly reflects,
Or are they a little daft?
Perhaps so. 
But what do we know of 
Beyond peril, of some kind of 
Wholeness if 
The spacings that
Shake off conventions
Don’t mean anything?

Friday, February 19, 2021

Landscape


On a night of insights 
Stepping into frigid
I turn my back to wind
I’ve had a notion
Most of my life 
About horizon, space, 
The vast as far as I could see
In the growing up, 
Wind across the plains
Constant in
The calling spaces

Now mighty wind
Rags my shoulders but
I don’t care, nor do I 
Turn to look out into  
Snow carried in this  
Night’s wildness 
And I can’t explain it,
Anything about it, but it
Falls upon me, 
Perspective

February 15