ballad of a thrush winds widd...

ballad of a thrush winds
widdershins these tree
exhibited up to dusk
to fend the dark
Venus in ascendance
crickets crawl hearth
spiders wreathe themselves
to catch float coerce it
smashed lace for us
or those of us left
loft bare plain
I live onward the prairie
as far as I can papal court
as an indian would
the remembrancer
further to prod
prosody
Ronald Johnson (1935-1998)