Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Faces Among the Leaves - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Faces Among the Leaves

 

At first she thought it was but the rock and the bushes…

But all at once she was aware of a face among the leaves…

 

Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter

 

There are curious faces among the leaves

Among the trees and sometimes in the trees

Along the road a little old man appears

Looking at me from the trunk of a rotting pine

 

He seems to be a little bit annoyed

But not dangerous; he’s become used to me

Tapping along with my shiny hiker’s stick

Searching the winter sky for something of truth

 

And there are bare feet dancing in the underbrush

And faces in the trees I must not see

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