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Even before the
second cup of
coffee,
I had to go out
to where the woodpeckers
were louder than
the sirens
on a morning blazing,
at last,
with a convincing
assurance of season's
change
Winter still holding back the bud
the blade
while the warmth of the sunshine
beginning to assert that
exquisite delineation
between gray and green
Standing on the edge,
cliff, season, fork in the road
evokes a sense of balance
far beyond the inner ear magic
we take for granted
This morning it was,
simply,
the pulse of life
the dancing with
within
the pounding of mortality
As the prairie,
the trees,
swelled with their irrepressible
responsibility,
canticles of death lay
all over the paths . . .
somber clusters of furry remains,
pellet after pellet
of owl's plat du nuit
as the woodpecker's tenacity,
as always,
wins the argument
© by Katrin Talbot.
Used with the author's permission.
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Photo credit: Isabel Karp
Australian-born Katrin Talbot is a violist, photographer, and poet. Her award-winning work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies and she is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Falling Asleep at the Circus, and The Devil Orders a Latte, forthcoming from Fernwood Press. Katrin leaves in the Madison, Wisconsin area, with quite a few chickens. Learn more about her at https://www.katrintalbot.com/.
    
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marenomitchell:
Hurrah for "irrepressible responsibility"!
Posted 03/21/2012 01:18 PM
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jcolonomos-1:
jeanc
love your busting out, love your "inner ear magic"
Posted 03/21/2012 12:21 PM
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raygoe:
I will be forever grateful for your lines:
Standing on the edge...evokes a sense of balance.
Posted 03/21/2012 11:28 AM
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judithc:
beautiful line...'winter still holding back the bud the blade.
judithc
Posted 03/21/2012 11:22 AM
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Wilda Morris:
Perfect for this very warm morning when I found a dandelion in bloom, and a little bit of my asparagus already ready to cut!
Posted 03/21/2012 09:50 AM
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mimi:
just the poem for a spring morning...beautiful!
Posted 03/21/2012 08:08 AM
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Katrina:
I love the swirl of this poem! Thank you.
Posted 03/21/2012 05:42 AM
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