BACKYARD
Quazi Johirul Islam
Backyard birch has bloomed a green umbrella
Two white doves peeping from mid branch above
Gray squirrel searches land to seedling love
A red handkerchief spoils the glabella.
Bullnose stones offered her cold and hard lap
Wind strokes the lush hair of mid-august-land
Golden finch flew, fallen feathers will stand.
Someone walks, wood diverged creating gap.
The falling sun kisses the floating dust
Between the patio-bricks smiles green moss
To uproot them lady draws cruel cross
Old man watches wash, and his anger burst
Three-years granddaughter appeared from sunset
She walks and falls, runs again, ignores threat.
Holliswood, New York
13 August 2019.
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