Hiram Larew

Maryland, USA

Larew's fourth collection, Undone, was issued in 2018 by FootHill Publishing.  On Facebook at Hiram Larew, Poet and on PoetryXHunger.com

Poem completed April 19, 2020

Gathered Gate

These crackle-pitches on every fence’s limb

twitch with birdies’ juice of blue

and flounce full of crossbeam joys.

This gathered gate to thrill above

makes curls and nestlings climb

to rounder fields with rotting-joys of windy rhymes

by garish notes on any wingsong fling.

Crazed with this very latch of paint

This Spring these Sarahs these Sams

a world of wet and bring and gives

inside out from very flapping laundry

As hammers’ ping out day-sights

mowed towards tucks where weedlets cling.

This finally swung-up open swoon

the teasing pinks of hover twigs of gully pools

as wanting is and ever was been

and never once and always does

These asks of time

full of plowed bright breezes 

daying.