Life huddles on a winter-dead tree.
Birds feather-fluffed crouch low,
Eyes shut to cold onslaught.
Moss uncombed
Drapes over shoulder limb.
A fungus staircase
Up the bumpy trunk
Provides an avenue
For a meandering snail.
Sudden flight
Cracks cloud, leaves branches
Bouncing in good-bye.
Torn shroud of gray
Re-sews itself.
Lonely twigs lace the sky
And mourn the bird-loss
With heavy dew-tears.
But moss still clings,
Fungus holds fast,
And snail still lingers.
Eric R. Eaton
circa 1981
A poet too? I am impressed.
ReplyDeleteI love poetry, I've collected it since I was little and my grandfather taught me to love it. He wrote many poems and could recite many others.