Thank you to Mark Antony Rossi for publishing two of my poems today in Ariel Chart.  Here is one of them.

https://www.arielchart.com/2021/01/overcoming-dissonance-of-winters-leaves.html

Overcoming the Dissonance of Winter’s Leaves

 

The quarreling song of winter’s

leaves. They ever

sing tunelessly when the bandmaster

turns some red with crimson

blush and some yellow with luminous

inquisition.  The wind’s

loud chanting helps the branches become

relieved of such inharmonious burden.

 

The sorrow of the fiber,

which has lost its breath,

falling, fallen,

strewn as acoustic panel carpet whispers, 

which lie prone, 

under bark-covered bones.

 

Their quarrel,

should we stay or should we go,

finally resolved.

The answer now sung out in unison,

with each crunch,

in accordance with what steps on them from above.