Monday, 21 February 2022

recalcitrant

 recalcitrant 


only one pebble will do

likewise only one word

as the pebbles roll in the backwash 

the words dance like ribbons on a tree

the wind and the sea are the rush

to find you standing still there

recalcitrant upon all three

the sun is no help or the moon

or the blossoms falling like snowflakes

now there’s another cliché for you

to grasp one of those before it lands

upon a pebble in melt

or a ribbon of the stamen’s pollen

turning away a breath so deep

that all of them halt for a split second

you have it 

      i have it you say

but i venture a snow globe that you have not

all is settled then

please don’t shake the sea tree

i’m surfing a wave

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