Devon Balwit
Beautiful and Terrible
The wind, while not quite gale force,
is close enough.
It hurtles across the sky to the right margin,
dragging clouds
and cracking trees, a violence oddly wafting
hyacinth
and apple blossom, for it is April. We pull
the dog out
just as a trunk topples at our feet. Our neighbor,
a woodsman,
fetches his chainsaw to lop the branches
and free us.
Devon Balwit‘s poems have appeared in The NewVerse News, Poets Reading the News, Redbird Weekly Read, Emerge Literary Journal, Rat’s Ass Review (Such an Ugly Time), Rise-Up Review, Unlikely Stories Mark V! and more.
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