Overcast
All of a sudden the weather
begins to matter,
snow geese, cows belly
the fields. And it becomes clear
once again we are the wind's
inheritance.
Not cold-blooded exactly
as much as
marsupial, the sky
pitched tightly around us--
an onion-color before it rains.
It is from this
disconsolate cold
our words finally become visible,
breath-igloos, receiving
our whole heart's temperature,
and to hear you say it
is no longer enough.
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AA BX XX BX XX XX XX XA XX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 409 |
Words | 71 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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