Selected Poems by Ted Burford
 

Today, we have 70 poems + 11 stories + 3 essays = 84 works by 43 authors
Weather Change by Davide Trame Back to browse title
It has broken the dim stillness, the spellbound stare.
Nooks and crannies are swept over now,
rust and dust set loose, eyes caught off-guard
taking in unveiled outlines with fear and a half-smile.
And the horizon so utterly visible, agitated
like an exposed nerve, an eel’s heart.
Then, the snow-pregnant air, a grey blade,
we, surveyed by an eagle silence,
the whole sky spread over us, ready
to be breached and wounded.
But just before the whooping cold
it was the moment of transition that we loved:
the sun already branded with a foreign light
under strips of outlined violet-veined clouds,
the crisp gusts of wind rising on the lagoon
with rippling shivers on teetering wave-crests,
a sudden, bright, scoured, piercing world
and two jet-black cormorants dashing,
skimming the current’s tendons,
testing the reaches of a breath.



 
   
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