Jean's Journal, Vol.16, No.4

Herewith, the latest selection from dusted-off published poetry and short fiction, circa 1970s vintage and beyond....

Flux

Butterflies weave
their flight
through cornstalks
ripening in the
afternoon sun.

Robins stalk the meadow
stringing out
worms, gasping
on the surface
of last night's rain.

A woollybear
winds its slow way
over a gravel road
presaging a
hard winter.

The driver
of the car does not see
the mash he has
left behind
only smells
the lingering odour
of skunk.

The gore reflects
the russet
of the maples.

c. 1979 Rita Rosenfeld
published in Jean's Journal, August 1979