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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

First Rite

This is my first poem of the New Year, written this afternoon.


First Rite


Reluctantly compliant twigs

permit the murmuring wind

to pluck arpeggios -


they glisten as they dance,

throw off the recent rain,

as if to solemnize the ground


in Holy baptism.

Shoots drill

through the cold


sodden ground,

shrilling defiance.

Snow’s residue,


a blanket stitch,

hems in the pale green spears.

A sunbeam breaks


the day’s grey wash -

as if to bless

this new emergence.



Malcolm Evison

24 January 2007

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