Windswept

The storm has come and gone                                                                                                the calm has returned to the sky                                                                                             limbs are swept back like a swan                                                                                            fledgling leaves stay not ready to fly                                                                                       but silvery trees trunks are twisted                                                                                         knurled curled by the battling wind                                                                                       looking muscular and double fisted                                                                                       conformed by storm and twinned                                                                                            like they were frozen in the time of war
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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