twilight over the Missouri
the shadow of ghost trees
paper birched and shedding:
a black current near the mud
and shells of clam and oyster
silver-sprinkle deep infested earth:
the coyote comes, the otter,
a few beavers, a family of possum
a then a bobcat thirsty-strong:
night begins to shade everything with new
songs reaching into the growing
dark, the bobcat splashes water on its face
twilight thick with trees, crickets, a forest.
| Copyright © 2022 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. |
The peace, the strength, the jubilation, the glowing, the gathering, the swirling, the coming and going!
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