“Apricot Wood,” is included in my chapbook , If Your Matter Could Reform, and was featured on Autumn Sky Poetry Daily in March 2015
Apricot Wood
I built a frame of apricot
wood. This was for you. The clouds float
through it even as I sleep. You wrote
once of wild herbs gathered and brought
to a lovely girl, an offering not
of passion but of some remote
desire to hear a word from the throat
of the Lord Within Clouds. I thought
of this as I chiseled the wood.
Last night it rained. I listened to
it from my bed by the open
window, hoping that the clouds would
not leave. This morning two birds flew
by. It is raining again.
O at the Edges 
Beautiful.
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Thanks very much, Salvatore.
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I admire your poetry. Also I have touched wood myself in verse.
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Wood can be quite soothing, even with its splinters!
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Also, Robert. I was wondering if you would recommend a few friends I could follow whom you think are serious poets. To you I would recommend the blog “linesfromaroom.” He is very talented British poet. I think he would also really like the kind of work you are doing. Sal.
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Thanks for the recommendation! I listed several, with links, in this recent interview: https://vitabrevisliterature.com/interviews/poet-robert-okaji-interview/
I’m on my way out, but will think of others as well, and will let you know. Thanks.
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That’s funny. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, friend.
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You too, Salvatore!
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