Down A Lane, Into A Grove Poem by Denis Mair

(for Abdelhaq Djellab's 'Landscape, ' posted April 15)
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The quiet excitation of colors is juicy and tremulous...

all the shapes are jostling to be part of the scene...

their patchwork assortment is a neighborhood happening...

in the time-frame of strolling into a grove, it is enduring...

the way they set each other off gives a sense of rightness...

they hang together, but also crumble… even so,

I have confidence that wonderment is just around the corner...

thus I can relinquish colors and shapes that belong together...

to join in the onward tumble, without a sense of precarity