Monday, April 15, 2019

"After frost"

After frost
the rude bloom
stoops with rime
dying.

A spider climbs
tippy-toe up the icy
stalk to sling strands
into the rising, brightening
air at a branch. No one

in all this is fooled.
A curious business
of trying

too soon to make a living;
the change coming too late
for we the living, burst

into it to appall
some design.

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