A poem a day in April from Rutgers English PhD students and friends.

Monday, April 13, 2015

Bare branches aching for their green
under the silver of a cloudy April morning,
silhouette-like; I believe in the earth,
the shadows of her meanings
and silence of her light.

I sit quiet, too,
and something seeps, flows
out like a river carving my features,
the edge of my hand,
the lines of my lips,
the furrows of my brow.

Or, burrowing-through the air,
pinches and pokes the heavens
until the torrents fall
and make mud out from the mountains we would not climb.


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