Poems from Nashawannuck Pond | David Ram
I hadn’t thought much of the wind today / before I pushed into the pond and found / how little, mind you, how little the wind / thought of me
I hadn’t thought much of the wind today / before I pushed into the pond and found / how little, mind you, how little the wind / thought of me
Church bells pealed canonical hours / matins, lauds, praise be for sunrise / prime, terce, sext / become silent graphics
boardwalk greasy with entangled seaweed, the rickety path to my summer blossomed open towards ...
If there is enough bark left, / if its trunk lying nearby / or if you were the one to fell it / you might be able to tell a tree’s identity ...
Multitudes of hands / open and close / like sea anemones ...
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Haiku written on Rocky Peak Ridge in the Adirondack Mountains.
On the promise of honey.
In this new age of machines / i am the racer who drives through the sky / the comb that rakes the long hair of the prairie / and sings her a lullaby when the nights grow cold
Perhaps the most grounded animals are most linked to our own eventual and possibly post human resurgence.