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Friday, August 6, 2010

Poem seeking title . . . any ideas?

(it's also brand-new-ish, so other suggestions are welcome)


Corinne beneath the willow dressed
In yellow like the sun above
The cirrus clouds.

Imaginant with wild ideas,
She clarinets, chasses, and whirls—
A girl apart

From others, gauzily concealed
By fountains of frosted green leaves.
The wind-songs rise

Into the slouching boughs—fireflies
Of quarter-notes. Corinne—the friend
Of enemies,

The lover, soft and young, of brutes
And vagabonds. The willow waves
Its valances

In time with music unheard-of
Since time began—the billioned years,
so long ago.

She goes. She goes. Around the tree,
Corinne, her clarinet, her dress
Chiffoned by wild

Ideas and sun.