Saturday, April 16, 2011

Experience

Violets shiver in an east wind

whose source is the past.

Brown sycamore leaves spin on the porch,

superannuated pine needles litter the roof.

You know by experience, the gutters will clog.

You know by experience, you must act for yourself.

Determined to revel in the storms of this season,

you risk the ladder one more time,

and you cut the gutters down.





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