ZEPHYR EAR ©

I
hope
this
is
the
last
report
I shall ever hear.
Wind in the leaves;
the fistulous rustling:
It riffles my symmetry
as only the warm gusts
can turn and thrill
a thousand inner
cracklings:
pop-pop
zephyr
ear.






TO
JOYCE KILMER
SOLDIER POET

From Zephyr Ear: My Way of Knowing¸2002
dedicated to
Jessica Faye Childers Gomez
The Child of Mother Earth


Liver of the White Buffalo, 2002
dedicated to
John Kevin Childers,
The Most Creative Person I know