Wind

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Wind

That it shudders through
and presages an untimely end,

that it transforms the night’s
body and leaves us

breathless and wanting,
petals strewn about,

messenger and message in one,
corporeal hosts entwined,

that it moves, that it blends,
that it withdraws and returns without

remorse, without forethought, that it
increases, expands, subtracts,

renders, imposes and releases
in one quick breath, saying

I cannot feel but I touch,
I cannot feel

* * *

“Wind” first appeared in Blue Hour Magazine and is included in my first chapbook, If Your Matter Could Reform.

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13 thoughts on “Wind”

  3. Powerful in silence
    thoughtless in violence
    This section of your poem rattled my bones Robert ..
    ” that it moves, that it blends,
    that it withdraws and returns without
    remorse, without forethought, that it
    increases, expands, subtracts,”

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