First Green

Staceyann Chin
Jamaican
b. 1972

 

Earmark me images
speckles pretty
with the tears of a child

open windows and summer
approaching
ominous air-marked with the first green

leaf
over-turned poems
forgotten
mouths tinkling humor

pages rustling
soft
sensible shoes
cushion/support/words

they unwind me
orange and gray laces

you/me entwined/separate
swirled
ice cream hinting the weather

may soon be
warmer

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