listener by Herb Kauderer

Posted on July 1, 2017 by Crystalwizard

listener
Herb Kauderer

on nights like this
when lightning chases
leaves down the mountain

and the wind
stalks the grass
like a cat

the eastern gods walk
as long ago

you can hear them
calling each other
in the thunder

and on a distant peak
one lone man
stands and listens

Xenophilia #7 July 1993