FRESH
LITERATURE
The
evening’s light snow
blankets the landscape
which
resembles a fresh page.
The
sun slowly melts
the
steel gray clouds,
traffic gradually builds
upon
the newly plowed streets,
and
under the giant oak
some
squirrels are busy writing
the
latest plots to their stories.
A red
one circles about the trunk
constructing an editorial,
the
two gray ones
chat
and run,
obviously in the middle of a play.
Mice,
scurrying to and fro,
work
on a survival manual
as a
cat stalking,
composes a spy novel.
All so
eager this new morning,
communicative critters
relating their lives
with
an alphabet of four letters.
Unlike
myself, silently observing,
secretly envious of their prolific abilities,
standing in the doorway
speculating why, in unison,
they
all just scampered away,
the
glare of a fox
in the
middle of a metaphor,
or did
they just fill the page?
Michael Keshigian’s seventh poetry chapbook, Wildflowers, was
recently released this Fall 2011 by Flutter Press. He has been
widely published in numerous national and international journals
and appeared as feature writer in over a dozen publications.
Recently, his collection of poems entitled Lunar Images, was set
to music for Clarinet, Piano, and Narrator by Boston composer
Dennis Leclaire and premiered at Del Mar College in Texas on
November 5, 2010. A Boston premier took place on March 7, 2011
at the Berklee College of Music and a September 2011 performance
occurred in Moleto, Italy. (
