finding time
on a broken parking meter . . .
the autumn rain
Author: Wally Swist
Wally Swist's books include Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love(Southern Illinois University Press, 2012), The Daodejing: A New Interpretation, with David Breeden and Steven Schroeder (Lamar University Literary Press, 2015), Candling the Eggs (Shanti Arts, LLC, 2017), The Map of Eternity (Shanti Arts, LLC, 2018), and Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir (The Operating System, 2018).
His poems and prose have appeared in The American Book Review, Anchor: Where Spirituality and Social Justice Meet, Appalachia, Arts: The Arts in Theological and Religious Studies, Commonweal, North American Review, and The Woven Tale Press.
first cool September morning catbird wrenching its cry wrenching its cry
finding another way new snow along the forked branches of the pine
he hawk flicks its tail
atop the telephone pole–
pelting winter rain
filling the field’s expanse
with its slenderness . . . .
tufted blue gamma grass
February rain . . .
yet still the sparrows playing
beneath a parked car