Friday, February 3, 2023

Poem: Comparison

 

Comparison

 

the blush

of phoenix burning blights?

 

of a grasshopper

that dons a checkerspot’s cape?

 

of nacre-hued winged swarm,

glint-greased in a revel of sun?

 

can you?

 

swans that expound silent

on a silk-blue lake?

 

an owl who questions,

covert as the creole of meadowlarks?


will you?


no schooner more magical

than a porpoise.

 

each eagle astral, supernal, laudable,

not a jet plane.


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5/20/24 ...



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

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