Friday, January 21, 2022

Minna (IX)

'Poem for the week' -- "Minna (IX)":

Sedate and archaic, a twilight-frilled haze

Walks over the meadows like rolled-out centuries

Quivering in sprightly welcome.

Trees pushed down by silence;

Trees lolling in comely abandon;

Trees pungently flamboyant,

Their leaves spinning in the wind’s golden elusiveness.

Trees probing the shrilly sensitive sunset

Like little, laced nightmares leaning

Upon a scarlet breast;

Trees sprinkling their stifled mockery

Upon the blue tomb of the air;

Trees, are you silenced beings

Whitening into the winding paradise

Of old loves seeking a second death?

And has this archaic, twilight-frilled haze

Moulded me to your semblance?

-- Maxwell Bodenheim


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