Friday, January 10, 2014

Next Summer's Shade

I stopped today on
   a trail deep under winter 
      to speak with aspen buds

already present, even at
   the darkest night, like
       actors backstage,

impatient for their cue.
   These pointed tree pebbles
      lean into bitter wind

all winter, harboring the
   shade where I will
      sit next summer while

feasting from a perfect
   garden of poems until
      I can hold no more.

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