Before a Storm
Rains come with thunder and brilliance,
the pond fills with water, twig and turtle.
Frogs avoid it, but snakes come to drink,
and the King of Deer leaves its track in the tom grass.
The pond is a great success and water lettuce takes root.
I want to stay for many days to watch an egg become
whole and living and dead, but I cannot, so I write
about it instead in well kept journals.
| 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. |
A simple, but simply glorious little poem! Love and longing.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your most kind words.
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