Back Issue  Winter 2006-2007

 

City Park, Early Morning

 

exponential light planking the streets

the tulips blue throats

closed up in their cups

nodding yes yes to the breeze

 

the grass so cool

the quiet so empty

on the bench in the fragrance

of tiny white stars of clematis

 

now a man in the blue jacket on time

scattering bread to the starlings and pigeons

now a woman shuffling the pavement

 

I look up at her tumbled face and tangled hair

how heavy the cart of belongings she draws

how black the buildings glass

where the tulips are nodding and nodding

 

                                    -Rosemary Winslow

 

Rosemary Winslow loves hiking and swimming in the New Hampshire territories and sitting in parks in cities.  Her book of poems, Green Bodies, is forthcoming in 2007 from The Word Works Press.