Notes On A Staff

Japanese

Winter branches
tipped with birds,
fat buds
that blossom on the air;
gray flames
at rest on a poplar
candelabrum;
four””-no, three””-notes
on a staff:

We hold what solaces
in place
like a fan before the face.

Joellen Kwiatek

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