the snow can’t maintain coherence a
white UP reefer on the Ontario, OR siding a
bicycle ditched in black snow by the tracks
say goodbye
thick standing water in a pasture a
sordid gray sky a yellow building collapsed under
snowload on a flat roof
say goodbye
the snow can’t maintain coherence a
horse head painted on a satellite dish be-
side an abandoned white homestead
say goodbye
a redwinged blackbird's feral trill in
bare limbed willows a Greyhound bus churning
north along a black glass highway
say goodbye
long gone long gone inside a gray sky
the snow can’t maintain coherence the
bitterbush black in thick rain
say goodbye
Jack Hayes
© 2011
This is the kind of poem that inspires me to write poetry again.
ReplyDelete