Cloudy Sunday
Under a dimming disk of sun
this winter day accumulates
a sense of unease
as it drifts, a floating bridge
of white noise between
the vanished image of yesterday
and the occluded vision of tomorrow.
What do they make of it, the raven pair
perched together at the top of the bare oak?
They are telling us something, but
we always fail to understand their language.
Ruth Holzer is the author of ten chapbooks, most recently, On the Way to Man in Moon Passage (dancing girl press) and Float (Kelsay Books). Her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Earth’s Daughters, Connecticut River Review and Plainsongs, among other journals and anthologies. She has received several Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations.
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