Thou art a Magnet
Great Old Mulberry Tree
Drawing down sun-power
From your high bright throne—
Such a downpour, a landfall
Of deep blue violet!
Berries on my bent shed rooftop.

Thou art a Magnet
Great Old Mulberry Tree
Pulling an ocean of sky and cloud
Into your grand green net—
Such a far-flung haphazard
Of deep blue violet!
Berries on my winter-weary lawn.

Thou art a Magnet
Great Old Mulberry Tree
Catching quick squirrels and sly birds
From the four corners of late spring
With such deep blue violet!
Bits of wine.

Thou art a Magnet
Great Old Mulberry Tree
Pushing shadows far and lost
Such deep blue violet!
Bursts of hidden light
Into my heart’s forgotten landscape.

Yvonne

 

Yvonne (aka Yvonne Chism-Peace) was the first poetry editor of feminist magazines, Aphra and Ms. She has received several awards including the National Endowment for the Arts for poetry (1974, 1984) and a Leeway (2003) for fiction. Online publications in 2018–2019 include: American Journal of Poetry, AMP, Tiny Seed Literary, Poets Reading the News, Rigorous, Headway Quarterly, Collateral, WAIF Project, Brain Mill Press’s Voices, Cahoodaloodaling and Edify Fiction.

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