what is it
about rain
arriving
—but not yet
as ginkgoes
—golden-leafed—
in autumn
startle dark
sorrowing
skies as you
dressed in red
on a night
years ago
pass under
a lintel
startle me—
lightning in
a bird’s heart
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 27, Issue 4.
Jay Brecker walks and writes in southern California. His poems are forthcoming or have appeared in Rattle Poets Respond, Birdcoat Quarterly, The Shore, Permafrost, Lily Poetry Review, Ocean State Review, RHINO Poetry, and elsewhere. His manuscript, blue collar eclogue, was awarded the 2024 Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Prize.
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