Windy

Windy

it’s windy today the river of air
is really churning little ripples and swirls
whirling down the trees a few small branches
breaking loose into temporary flight my mind
is never quiet when the wind
rips along like this a sudden drumroll
of raindrops on the roof as shaken
branches unload their burden of water
brief cloudbursts of memory
and it isn’t you that has my mind swaying
and dancing like these trees it’s just
windy today the river of air
is really churning the trees
can feel it deep to the roots
and their trunks groan a little as they sway
along their whole length and my mind
sways with them on this windy day

(KZ 2016)