Second Story
index:
year of the dragon
shadows
dark rider
springleaving
age
fring spever
snow
crazy horse mountain
departure
child song
song for parents
nightcapers
six love poems
potree
impossible
the river
buffalo trail
second story
sorrow
relativity
denial
lovers
mountainman
april
at needle point
the clearing
north wind
puddles
hall stairs
river crossed
autumn trees
dragonfly
meadowlark
twisting
sea endlessly
moonlit hills
finish so smooth
flower song
ackknowledgements
about Mildred Rose
For T.A.R.
SPRING LEAVING
Crocuses again -
you eye-bound only
to the season of love
and I to the quaver
of the clock chimes.
Crocuses are always coming
between us when we have slipped
a little farther apart
in that falter of love
between two chasms
of dark winter.
Something of winter
in me I do not comprehend.
Last night promised spring,
was frost-free,
hours ahead warm with planning.
But suddenly crocuses again!
The way you look at them
stabs my heart.
Soon strings will be plucked
apart. This wild, twanging melody
of alien familiarity
withers roots.
Did you say
When you'll be home
again?
Second Story
by Mildred A. Rose
The
Mildred Rose
Collection
Copyright 1976 by Mildred A. Rose,
all rights reserved.
Originally published by The Music House Press.
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except in short reviews, without the
author's permission.