All the trees on Capitol Hill
are dancing.
Light strobes through branches.
Seventy mph winds
close down the government,
crash trees
onto houses, yank shutters
off clapboard,
run a magic show across
the stage of our lives.
Trees softened
their dark, spiky
skeletons suddenly chubby
with leaves.
Mist on the horizon is moving
like a feather duster
brushing tender leaves
with brightening moisture.
Soon enough,
this fog will wisp away
above our shattered brilliance.
Patricia Gray, author of Rupture from Red Hen Press, formerly headed the Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center in the USA. An award-winning poet, her work has been anthologized in Still Me from Wolf Ridge Press and in Endlessly Rocking celebrating Walt Whitman. She is at work on a novel and also teaches online creative writing workshops for The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland at www.writer.org
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