flake difference
snowflakes
they said
every one
is different
ever was
ever will be
looked at
some on the
tip of my
glove believed
it so though
not in my eyes’
unravel
my breath ‘ad
already turned
them to droplets
gone into
the weave
of thread
they show
you pictures
in books of the
difference plain
between crystal arms
Continue reading “flake difference”
dimmed
the fog
is cozy
cozy
the games we played
bringing a whole
town a whole
country into the
back yard the
fog smoothes
out the world
for us to
a smaller one
like white bread
and butter
houses roads
trees clumped
in dimness
look
bags packed
ready to leave
into that fog
abandon the
tasks of day
the magpie
Continue reading “dimmed”
peach tree
the peach tree
of this morning
all its branches
the luminous
strength of a
clean soul
lifting
bud packed
along all its
twig some
in sun some
in shade
lifting
in the
storm-washed
air jewelled
fingers touching
on the wise
poverty
of sky.
august 2012
Copyright © 2021 Peter Le Baige. All Rights Reserved
The music is from a 2oo6 performance in Budapest by violinst Barnabás Kelemen and the Ferenc Erkel Chamber Orchestra of Mozart’s Rondo for violin & orchestra B flat major, KV 269
