Another one from poetry class...just in case you're wondering, the instructor didn't believe in rhyme, or abstraction in poetry...
Winter Storm
With old, arthritic fingers
the half-naked tree
clutches the dirt-brown
wrinkled leaves,
like remnants of tattered clothing
fluttering in the frigid wind,
as if to shield itself from
the cutting crystal tears
wept by the shivering sky.
A half-cradled bird's nest,
abandoned,
is perched in the crook of Tree's arm,
rocked precariously with each rough breath.
The empty feeder flings back and forth,
like a swing out of control;
The Wind nibbles and chews...
Tree is losing.
28 Oct. 1992
Sidhe
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My free will...I never leave home without it.
--House
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
-Rita Rudner
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