windrag : poetry : journal

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Category: poem

tone poem

our parking strip, neglected, grows up wild, every season shows a fresh new face, diverse and course, ’til when it’s at it’s lushest it’s razed to dirt. the neighbors cultivate their little patch, and season after season pluck the weeds between the cared-for plants they planted. year-round, a pleasant place. and there you go, my […]

reading inside

wave after wave of spring rain. nothing that’s written makes love easier.

meteorology

something holds the trees as spring’s first storm sends them swaying. feet at shoulder width.

for burton watson

how did i fail to notice that you were on my nightstand, the night you stepped into the spring? never having left my village home, pictures of far-off lands inform my dreams.

growth mindset

after years of drought, weeds and flowers both look sweet. pause, and reassess.