"I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms"
----Wallace Stevens
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird"
Patricia Wallace Jones
Patricia Wallace Jones is an artist and retired disability advocate/parent trainer. She began writing poetry after retiring on the northern California coast. Her poems and/or art have appeared in Avatar Review, PDQ, MindFire, Confused Muse, Tilt, Shit Creek Review, The Chimaera and in various regional art shows and galleries. When time allows she tries to post daily on: http://imagineii.typepad.com/imagineii/
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Patricia Wallace Jones
Winter Finding
I have loved this season since
birth
or before--
the haunting air and angle of light,
pipe and
flute, the flash of dance
in a shedding moon.
I see ones the others
can’t,
old beloveds gathering to drink,
their shadows circled in
shades of shade,
the flicker of fire and billow of silk.
Across the river I hear rhymed
songs,
ancient runes perfectly chanted
in dying grass and balanced
light,
the thinnest veil at autumn’s turn.
www.lucidrhythms.com
© 2007 David Landrum