~Zephyr Incidental~

By WordWulf, 8th Apr 2011 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/ovkf3xth/
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~ she exists as a wisp of promise ~ muse ~ a fast train rushing ~ its wind tunnel throat ~ backdoor thundering tornado ~ smoke & fire ~ unaware of his eyes ~ muse ~ she dances in his sight ~ & the zephyr blows her away ~

~Birth~
~Cradle~
~Grave~

~Birth~

Just beyond his hearing her nuance spirit whispered. Entranced, he paused to listen. As when one hears angels, he closed his eyes, senses dissolved, allowed her purchase on the tender-wall, that fantastic realm of being deep inside and long untouched. Wide-eyed and watchful as near-prey at the approach of a new stranger, he was gifted and no predator she.

~Cradle~

Whom paints clouds on the groundswell invites a visage of heaven into the everyday burrows of life where gypsies and nomads all, a procession of high-stepping minstrels, wander the path of the last troubadour, his verses alive on the trade-winds the limits of continents ignore. Voices a-hum at the cradle are the whispering mothers of life, angelic visions from the bottom of the well.

~Grave~

~Zephyr Incidental~

It is difficult for flat-line thinkers to imagine the circle of life, the undeniable and beautiful sameness of shadows, cradle and grave. Whose love owns the heart of a poet may at once be blessed and damned, a witness participant to ecstasy, exalted in the light of his words, a fall-me-down, pick-me-up dancer whose idylls create and destroy the otherwise past and undone.

~Tom (WordWulf) Sterner~
~The Butterfly Poet~
~Air of Lust~
~Raw~

Meet the author

WordWulf
Tom Sterner lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado with wife Kathy. He has been published in numerous magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake. His interne...(more)