Imprints
The day is like a camel waking with the moon still on display, the few rays of sunshine carried on trays down spiral staircases intimated in winter mists. A watch is attached to a bloody wrist every Christmas day, I have been for years trying to find footprints in a an hourglass filled with snow. Disparate snowflakes rest on boughs, snow is the alarm of the clock of the trees being announcing winters arrival and the familiar pull of history's catheter as sources are gathered. old modes dripped. I see a pair of antlers trapped in ice, holding but not gripping the sun, can hands from a cross reach a bloody watch hung between the sun and moon, to correct the time?-he left hand-prints in clouds to high to reach misty staircases, perhaps flakes are his frozen tears. I arrive home as solstice nears, a blackbird has left imprints on an old suitcase packed with snow in a garden that hints at the calm of a millennium all cried out.
Free Verse
Spiritual
5
0
incantation
Find out more about incantation.
Poems by style
Poems by content
Archive