Celestial Elbow - D.R. James

The sky wore the regalia of flames but

turned lavender-violet quietude

in a moment’s romance. And the breeze, how

it finessed everything and cradled me.

Awakened by the dazzle, I reposed—

riveted, infused, imbued by satin.

Gift after gift from ginger tongues, then glow

audible like visions. It was never

a coddling. The nod from the heavens

judged most memories mere indulgence—and grudge.

Originally published by North of Oxford 2021

D. R. James, retired from 40 years of teaching college writing, literature, and peace studies, lives with his psychotherapist wife in the woods near Saugatuck, Michigan. His latest of ten collections is Mobius Trip (Dos Madres Press, 2021).
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