a week of poetic feet selfies ~~ It Wasn't The Wind by Linda Allardt

It Wasn't a The Wind by Linda Allardt Memorial Art Gallery Poet Walk

It Wasn’t The Wind

nor chasing squirrels

that brought the snow

down from the trees, but sun

before the clouds moved in.

I think of sails,

thin membranes spread

in the solar wind

Such far travel

before so slight a push,

always away from the sun

in slow acceleration, its course

an imperceptible bent past planets,

micro-impacts, the turbulence

where light meets light

between paired stars.

Stretched wide to the sun,

how far I find myself from anchor.

Linda Allardt, "It Wasn't the Wind" from Accused of Widsom (Foothills Publishing, 2004).