Anatomy of Summer Wind

A poem

Karen Arnold, Public Domain Pictures

The wind reads
my turning pages
white dress waving cotton
and blanket flaps over dirt
swallows whirr for a stint
through leaves shivering silver
into precise blue
then skim with river wind
sound reflection increasing
syllables over swirls of river high
biding violence over placid silt
red windsocks
bleached and billowing East
atop burnished logs
creosote and rose bush breeze
wind carrying histories
and cigarettes from supine figure in reverie
court my nose with clipped grass
where strangers lay as tossed leaves
in the same whispering world

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