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K. A. HAYS

Windflaw


Only the mundane middle-of-things

stays green      flamed by the brilliances



             (bud roused red      or broke-gold leaf)

             Blinking into      and flashing out



the hues squall      as the city soon-to-be sounds

like the city soon gone      and the just-born


             squints like the dying      See

             how the first leaf      wrinkled 



unstrong      finds windflaw

and clings      then clinging



             having unpinked      wet

             and glad      goes bronze


 
 
 
130 The Paris-American

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K. A. Hays is the author of Early Creatures, Native Gods (2012) and Dear Apocalypse (2009). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry, The Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, jubilat, and many other venues. She currently lives in Lewisburg, PA, and teaches at Bucknell University.







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