Appalachian Gray

I think the dusk has slipped beyond all words. You speak spring with an accent never heard. A poem on an Appalachian pane Is bringing April back via the rain. Pale trillium on the hill above the creek Is delicate beyond the will to speak. A gray coat of old feelings wraps my frame. The landscape flickers like a candleflame. Friend, frozen tears of trees mirror the sky Within the confines of their inner cry. The light fades us into its elegy. Music is pictured though no sound need be. 2007, Copyright Sandra Fowler