The Innisfree Poetry Journal www.innisfreepoetry.org by Edward Fisher
Ceaselessly Leafy Spring
(Homage to Wendell Berry) Ceaselessly leafy spring Your grace-notes in wavelengths of green, Gather my garden of wild hopes & weeds Lost & found among moonflower mists Hiding in the heart of light & shadow Scatter the secret of bird-songs & seeds . . . This poem of xylem & phloem Written out in concentric rings, Unrolls like a scroll from some ancient wood, Whispering through mulch & dead leaf matter On the quiet side of underground water And the blank white page of winter . . . Ceaselessly leafy spring Keyed to the burgeoning rhythms of earth Cross-pollinate these syllables & sighs, Traced out in the silent roots of words Turning eternally, repeated in rhyme, Transfiguring the eye! Copyright 2006-2012 by Cook Communication |