michael-weddington - Hello Poetry

michael-weddington

michael-weddington

American Each time it is / A blind man opening his eyes / / -A Debt, W.S. Merwin

dreams eyes mind cries find young bounding stranger beneath alive splashes quiet bygones shouts high walks rain hand dream wind stones crumpled joins gold hunger rapture dancers scattered infant crotches leads paper causeway human horns touch earth cold layers chimes laced inverse lights rose glance day dance alchemy ripened board colloquial relevance taunting righteous skies good eternities vindicate trenchant wedged cardinals whirled cataclysm kiss tossed pranced reap wings bootstraps gray masters clouds conclusion elevate tear ovation porous eve loses leave oblivion bullion mastered truth trite hung sparrows prevailing heavy crescendo dour crowd hanging soul lashed powder seam nostrums pylon shrouder divine sharp fear whip shining hymn living putrid personification lead crystal armor sun puddled lean bad ice brandish faltered pen arcane capital medicine reply burned sliding filled movement fearlessness scampering melancholy foam misstep booms sentient reaching wayward tarots funeral phantoms behold lack countenance shifting drums miscarriage moans turbulently jaunty change