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Dave Bonta
all is one in fog
a fine wool
the grove like a riff
half-way to the ear
my old clutter of books
strata from the burial of a grove
telling me how to fall
and in which hard bed
in the morning grove
a stout man would be a bear
his care in sitting as I look
with my hide of a good face
Cut it right below at the stem
Where it bursts out of the soil
Seeking light and rain and air
The soil softened with the fallen yellowed leaves.
In the grove,
Warblers might be twittering
Pheasants would be muttering
Doves would be cooing
Lizards would be basking
In the sun.
The lone old cobra would be huddling,
Its last skin too, shed.
Above, the green slender long leaves
Would be chattering in the breeze
The poles, a-yellowed, a- green
Would be listening and smiling.
O SPRING of my Content,
The parching days are spent.
Where'er your feeding waters move
There is the sweet increase of love.
I, wanderer in a wilderness
Starved of all hope and comfortless,
Now lay me down in groves of cool delight
Which you have nurtured, in a charmed night.