laughter, blew

This is a nature poem in stanzas. Its set on the campus of the school in Millidgeville just after a storm on a spring afternoon.

 

it had rained like the world

would end

and she cursed from cars

to clouds         

at the insolence.

 

when the grays

were gone she cleared the lawn -

wandering toward columns

and lights; she

passed beneath a tent

of trees, blacking sun and sky

 

and as she walked on, under their blanket,

the boughs laughed –

shaking water from the green

green hair and into hers. and floating

through this patch

of storm, the laughter passed

into her, too,

 

and she twittered back

into the sunlight.