Tree Child

rest among the gentians
                 like an exhausted lover,
                 the road has thrown

you out of track and youth,
                 a line of rescue wakes
                 the rooks in the cold trees;

there is a nest not far away
                 waiting to fall, a pause
                 before the first call, a damp leaf.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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