Produced by Dennis Camire
This week’s poem is by Robert Petrillo of Westbrook.
Zephyrus Unbound
By Robert Petrillo
A windstorm swept the region’s broken trees –
the county’s roads and neighborhoods are strewn
today with lifeless limbs and rough debris,
the crumpled dead that from their homes were hewn.
On carnage-matted ground the yellow sun
in bright indifference casts its skipping glance
while fickle breezes flip and toss wet clumps –
a playful step in nature’s careless dance.
The innocence of blue, a child’s eyes
that gaze upon destruction like a game –
beyond the heavens’ mask of cloudless skies
lie dark and heartless spaces we can’t name.
Our human struggle has always been the same;
we wrestle nature’s gods that won’t be tamed.
Dennis Camire can be reached at dcamire@cmcc.edu
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