Poem: Comparison

 

Comparison

 

the blush

of a phoenix burning blights?

 

of a grasshopper

that dons a checkerspot’s cape?

 

of a swarm of nacre-hued wings,

glint-greased in a revel of sun?

 

can you?

 

swans that expound silent

on a silk-blue lake?

 

an owl who questions,

bold as the rhyme of meadowlarks?

will you?

no schooner more magical

than a porpoise.

 

no eagle less astral, supernal, laudable

than a jet plane.

 

what wind feckless, sunset dishonest, wave sterile, or cloud simple,

compared to a poet's prate?

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Coldest it's been in four decades here in Maine, gusts to -50F, on this 23rd anniversary of my brother's death.