Michael Spring
USA
| Michael Spring lives in
O'Brien, OR. He is the author of two poetry books: blue
crow (LitPot Press, Inc., 2003) and Mudsong (Pygmy Forest
Press, 2005). His poems have appeared in The Atlanta
Review, Dublin Quarterly, The Midwest Quarterly, NEO, and
New Works Review. He is a martial arts instructor, natural
builder, and poetry editor for The Pedestal Magazine. |
double-dig gardening at the
Cob Cottage Company
Ianto is in the meadow
sixty seven and pitching
mounds of garden mulch
his ribs are behind
every thrust and soft clump
caught in the pitchfork
his legs are rooted
along with the tubers
and the roots of legumes
particles of leaf and straw flutter
over the jaws of caterpillars
and over the thrush’s eggs
his mind is a garden
of cabbages, turnips
and fava beans
with his hands the earth is turning
and nurturing itself
a muscular and nuptial
instinct
mulch pulls apart then falls heavily
back to its mother
darkening
with the seeds of stars
Portal
after Vivian Fine
Vivian Fine is on the edge
of the forest, leaning
against her piano –
the shadows below the trees are green
and black, heavy
as a bridge
the trees creak in the wind, begins
her composition of Portal
a white vine unravels in my head
a ladder floats to the moon
the dark wood of her piano
is polished slick as a lost lake –
her image swims to the surface
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