an elegy of clouds

NaPoWriMo, Poem A Day, Poetry, Elegy, Grief

yesterday i cut the tall grasses
cursing and creaking
just the same as every year
all complaints and mess and
blisters

i thought of you as i snipped and gathered
wondering why i bother
with these spreading earth-takers
clucking at the way
their roots
have broken the box i built for them
and thinking perhaps
it’s time to dig them up

plant some dahlias

maybe

but then i remembered
how much i love to listen
to the sound they make in summer
each tiny gust of wind
whispering ten thousand secrets
in a language i don’t understand

i thought of all the times
i’ve used them for shade in late august
pad and pencil recording streams
of words i can’t quite hear
and that day a black striped dragonfly
landed on my knee
with a message i still can’t
decipher

and then i gathered up my tools
and walked inside

no decision but my thirst
to let them stay

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A poem a day for 30 days, in honor of National Poetry Month. Day 3
I’m participating in NaPoWriMo, and Writer’s Digest Poem a Day Challenge.
 

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