U

 

Winter leaflets No. 26 (2021)

[U]

 

Understandably, notwithstanding

everything else alive, a fear steps uninvited

at the sign of wildfire worldwide cited

iceshelfs sighted gone long to water, nothing.

Underestimating the scale is simple;

mind speaks inferno and deluge,

eyes shut while dreams find helpless refuge

in lifetime snaps, their own special sample.

 

Except morning again forbids mourning.

A fragment of pop song venerates only U.

Upstanding, such fear again is pushed aside

as if possible are respite and u-turnings,

today like unto others made from cold dew

and sunbeam, normal noise, regular tide.