Rojane Jasper’s most recent poem to appear here was “I Remember . . . ” (May 2018).
A Wooded Pathway
By Rojane Jasper
Walking along a wooded pathway
I come across a wintery thicket,
An undergrowth of leafless stems,
There a flurry of robins
Flitter through the branches
And so,
To carry to me
Their song of sunlight
And of spring.
Watching the robins
I feel I want
to sing.
Returning home,
I come across you.
Your wearied form and limbs
In the flittering of light
Comes sweetened and unadorned.
Seeing you,
I want to weave my arms
Through your limbs
And I want to whisper to you
What the robins
Have already told me,
Which is all that they know of spring.
Lovely.