Ambitions
All my life
the low stung tree on the hilltop,
the river birch near the stream,
one mulberry tree in a field.
White branches no longer able to hold a weight in leaf,
the birch dips its roots into water,
the mulberry plans its invasion.
The path lacks shade,
the path lacks humor,
honor a seed hibernating into soil until its time of need.
| Copyright © 2013, 2023 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. |
Ambitions to generate, to go on! – a theme burgeoning in the thoughts and feelings of my character Goines. Cf. “Goines On: La petite mort,” to be published on May 2.
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