Tuesday, January 18, 2022

**Poetry: Wolf Moon at Tu B’Shevat

 

Wolf Moon at Tu B’Shevat


Yesterday was the birthday of trees.


And today

the first full moon of the new year

greets the morning


It hovers behind

pink streamers of cloud,

decorating the dawn


You step cautiously on the frozen

driveway- and wonder


Are these days of beginning 

or of loss? 


They say wolves cry not from hunger

but from mourning- 


Yet, even still, the maples 

are murmuring through roots


And the sap in these limbs

is preparing to rise.


So it is with the heart: 

the howling.
And the healing

flow through ice.



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