Hatagoya's Desk

Sunday, October 23, 2022

silent prayers

by Stephen A. Rozwenc

 silent prayers
for betrayed autumns
these remaining New England trees
conceal nothing
 
their projected limbs
climb skies to eat sunlight
only punch air in bitter winds
scheme no species death masks
and utter the soundless Ommmm
that lets go pain
of never again released beauty--
treetops crowned the highest right
between wrong
and we
 
still glowing coals and embers
of dying lives
their all-seeing leaves
are miniature orange robed Buddhist monks
doused in human gasoline
to set themselves on fire
as flaming ghosts
who chant purple crimson supplications
to feed the earth
as they drip down hillsides

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