Notes About The Poem

“Deep beneath the waves, white-winged birds of May
Run from hollow hills, walk into the night.”

In the White Noise of Elegy

Her pale face is voided antiquity,
a paper-thin line

fallen fresh
from flowery fallacy 

to hardwood floor, coiled 
cold & blue in landing;

words, like little 
droplets of April rain,

a distant deluge
of drought parsing orange

Hemerocallis petals

trenching 
around her.

To see it unfold.

Bent at the altar,
Spring’s forgotten daughter can’t.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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