Delphiniums in a Window Box by Dean Young

Delphiniums in a Window Box by Dean Young (1955-2022)

Every sunrise, sometimes strangers’ eyes.Not necessarily swans, even crows,even the evening fusillade of bats.That place where the creek goes underground,how many weeks before I see you again?Stacks of books, every page, character’srage and poet’s strange contraptionof syntax and song, every songeven when there isn’t one.Every thistle, splinter, butterflyover the drainage ditches. Every stray.Did you see the meteor shower?Every ...