dogwood

this tree heels close to me.

dogwood autumn swims, one
hundred arms flung taller
than my face can leap.

a fruit, swollen red dollop plum,
swaying, falling into wind, then
lands, made sweet to other tongues.

ground drinks ripe consequence.

2 thoughts on “dogwood

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s