STAIRS ASTIR
—of trusts, a raining of stars
truant iris ruins. Elemental
art of rust traits and rants, dust starts again
tar ruts, urn twists.
Violet lips, green fist-
burst jackets of slim-gold exuberance.
On the page
or in the garden, what else
would we have wanting
desire’s other face?
Into the dark, seasons pocket our days
returning with colors unfamiliar
finding estrangement anew.
Songs, some first
or last, call me back to you
here in this
handful of earth, water and sun.
Of gifts,
a naming of parts innumerable
changes becoming—
wind flame river wish.
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W. SCOTT HOWARD lives in Englewood, CO, where he gardens and writes. Scott’s poems may be found in Diagram, E.Ratio, Talisman, Visible Binary, and word for / word (among other journals). His collections of poetry include the e-book, ROPES (with images by Ginger Knowlton) from Delete Press, 2014; and SPINNAKERS (The Lune, 2016). He teaches poetics and poetry in the Department of English & Literary Arts at the University of Denver.
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Read more by W. Scott Howard:
Poem in Diagram
Poem in E.Ratio
6 Poems in word for / word
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