In Indian Country
Heat and Fire Rhyme
In the wash between the Missouri and the palisades,
heat and fire rhyme.
Sky has breath, water afterbirth, and down the graveled path
past cattails, marshes and poison ivy quagmire and film:
Synonyms.
Every stride, meter. Every bend, a new line.
The horizon, another stanza.
The small back of dusk, the white stream of light, a lake at dawn,
simile,
trees, shadow, wind against a shrouded sky,
earthbound color,
the easy scent of spring after a good rain,
perfumed clean bath water clear.
| 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. |
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