How Long?
You peek out from behind
clouds
that part, setting fires
among the blue-gray skies
just before sunset.
How long will you stay
with me?
I hear you in the quiet
space
just before sleep
yet you rarely appear in
dreams.
But morning's first light
arouses
new buds on lavender
causes calla lilies
to unfurl as the sun
ascends.
I know it’s you who tempt
spiny seeds to lift and
crown
my bed of coneflowers --
and you are there
as these nod and flutter
in late-morning wind squalls
below white-feathered
fog.
By noon wind grows calm;
through the open window
comes a long cool breath
of earth,
promising to lift me
from this place of
wanting.
How long will you stay
with me?
Mary
Anna Kruch
Mary Anna Kruch is a career educator and writer. She mentors new teachers and leads a monthly writing workshop. Recent poetry appears in Ariel Chart, The Remembered Arts Journal, River Poets Journal, Mark Literary Review, Trinity Review, Credo Espoir, Wayne Literary Review, and the anthology, After: Stories about Loss and What Comes Next. Poetry is forthcoming in an anthology entitled Chrysanthemum; a short story is forthcoming in Persephone’s Daughter. Her first poetry collection, We Draw Breath from the Same Sky, was published this summer.
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We are creatures of nature in all its glory. I love how the author reminds us of the emotional, intellectual, romantic and physical connection to our world.
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