IMAGE OF EARTH AND QUILL

Guest Poet Margaret A. Dukes



Crystals to Color the Rest of My Day  

Even the tiniest branch
        is a suncathcer
with frost on its bark.

Every unmowed weed glories
   in its frozen dew slicker
        this morning.

I slow my car.
        Can I absorb
this light, too?

This scene is not gray winter, 
it's alive
making bare branches and
fallow field
seem full
even in dead
of winter.


February, 1999


Margaret A. Dukes's Questions:

1.  How should I do the stanzas and line breaks?

2.  What do you think about the title?


Correspond with Margaret A. Dukes at
mdukes@bellatlantic.net
with your ideas about this poem.



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