Robert Francis Wind Poems

  • 1.
    My mind matches this understand land.
    Outdoors the pencilled tree, the wind-carved drift,
    Indoors the constant fire, the careful thrift
    Are facts that I accept and understand.
    ...
  • 2.
    The first speaker said
    Fear fire. Fear furnaces
    Incinerators, the city dump
    The faint scratch of a match.
    ...
  • 3.
    How lush, how loose, the uninhibited squash is.
    If ever hearts (and these immoderate leaves
    Are vegetable hearts) were worn on sleeves,
    The squash's are. In green the squash vine gushes.
    ...
  • 4.
    A wind's word, the Hebrew Hallelujah.
    I wonder they never gave it to a boy
    (Hal for short) boy with wind-wild hair.
    It means Praise God, as well it should since praise
    ...
  • 5.
    The winter apples have been picked, the garden turned.
    Rain and wind have picked the maple leaves and gone.
    The last of them now bank the house or have been burned.
    None are left upon the trees or on the lawn.
    ...
Total 5 Wind Poems by Robert Francis

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