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TPCReview Issue 002

Leonore Wilson

Wind Sorting   and Resorting

Where the groves thickened     with song
     like a poem     beating on stone

the wind   recognized its posture
    didn’t it   on the lower slopes

then the higher…

Old shawl    over mustard    and through
     not romantic   like a quilt   made of calico

no its ego was     a twisted rope
    bold calligraphy    of   shadow…

And didn’t the random moss   on the lily pond
     worry   momentarily

and also    the foreman’s palomino
      rolling in flax     and the orphaned goslings

among the knobbled tulles   barely moving…

The wind would be orange     if it took a color
     no the wind would be     honeyed bronze

like the open doors     of California
     with its fault lines   sometimes a finger-narrow…

The Diablo wind    was no slower    than silence
     until   the elongated figure   of lightning

broke free as if    from the hodgepodge    root system
    of the scooting     scooting     San Andreas…

Leonore Wilson is a retired college English and creative writing from Northern California. Her two poetry books are Western Solstice (Hireath Press) and Tremendum, Augustum (Kelsey Press). She is on the MFA Board at St Mary’s College of California. Her work has been in such magazines as The Iowa Review, Third Coast, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Upstreet, Madison Review, Laurel Review, Pif, etc. Her historic 100 year old cattle ranch in the eastern hills of the Napa Valley was recently destroyed in the LNU fire of Napa Valley.