[Originally published in the now-defunct “zine” Message in a Bottle.]
currants of color
as in spices and herbs,
as in safety and ginger—
currents of water
have a way with words, too,
paddlefish, large mouth bass,
tiny vertebrae, bottom feeders
when the weather comes in,
mixing metaphors,
birch and mullein slip
deeper into the stream
and somewhere else color rises,
currant and current,
the scent of opium in tea
| Copyright © 2020 by Michael H. Brownstein Michael H. Brownstein’s volumes of poetry, A Slipknot Into Somewhere Else and How Do We Create Love?, were published by Cholla Needles Press in 2018 & 2019, respectively. |
Michael, words and nature and spirit...all flowing as one in the abundant rivers of your poetic springings forth! Thank you, thank you, thank you – a thousand times.
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