Friday, May 1, 2015

May Poetry--The Finches by Wendell Berry

The Finches by Wendell Berry

The ears stung with cold
sun and frost of dawn
in early April comes

the song of winter finches,
their crimson bright, then
dark as they move into

and then against the light. 
May the year warm them
soon. May they soon go

north with their singing
and the season follow. 
May the bare sticks soon

live, and our minds go free
of the ground
into the shining of trees.