Monday, 18 January 2021

branched

branched

calligraphied there in the snow

cliché black and twisted bent where

the wind has leant for far too long

upon the gaunt thought of waiting

upon the drifting 

upon the blurring 

of eyes closed in the twirling

one to the other’s turning 

silk like

trance like

beneath any understanding of the why

the branching sought the touching of fingertips

budding in the touching 

in the turning one to another

touching as urgent as the wind presses the moment into being

into the consummation 

the way the tree relaxes when the snow drops

as we turn prone to the tracing of the footsteps

that merged under the snow’s dawning

and now

asleep in the time that has had its time

knowing 

not what that was 

other than that it was now

that the black branches remembered the spring

the tight buds pulsed almost imperceptibly 

in everything everywhere there was a pregnancy 

in the untwirling of spliced time


 

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