Lia Purpura: "First Leaf"
That yellow
was a falling off,
a fall
for once I saw
coming—
it could
in its stillness
still be turned from,
it was not
yet ferocious,
its hold drew me,
was a shiny switchplate
in the otherwise dark,
rash, ongoing green,
a green so hungry
for light and . . .
From: Fiction & Poetry
Monday, 28 September, 2009
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