I went around the circle of time Until I entered a canopy of trees. A torrent of greenness Descended on me And sun-green white dappled through. I saw a lady lying no higher Than the branches of my trees And together we breathed in The elegance of this Gauguin second. Yet by the time I exhaled I lost the deep darkness Under the trees And the coolness That lingered And the woman With me.
Irwin R. Shaw - Published Winter 1987 in SEVEN GATES poetry from Jerusalem
Showered By the Whitewashed Yellowness of Sun
I went around the circle of time
Until I entered a canopy
of trees.
A torrent of greenness
Descended on me
And sun-green white dappled through.
I saw a lady lying no higher
Than the branches of my trees
And together we breathed in
The elegance of this Gauguin second.
Yet by the time
I exhaled
I lost the deep darkness
Under the trees
And the coolness
That lingered
And the woman
With me.