By Sprung
Submitted by Briana Kassia
Date: 2010 Mar 02
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adjusting to the alone again

free and easy, laid back
and breezy
wanting to stand but leaning
when the hurt ended
it left me hollow

alder buds are drooping
swaying off-green jewels
no leaves yet but soon
the velvet buds unfurling
in that timeless, pious enduring:
the faith of the trees

birdsong in the middle time
flashes of red and black from the hedge
the rain soft, insisting
drumming me back to sleep

from my cage I can see
the crooked limb of the sky
and the pebbled beach of forever

it is lonely
but good