Poetry by David Athey
There is a weeping willow
in sunrise
wild with ravens
singing in the crown,
a raucous song, a tantrum
of cries; and there is
a hint of a wind
like a gentling hand
brushing branches away
like hair from sorrow;
and there is silence
in the crown when the ravens hush
and the willow begins—and here
is my father—to laugh.
David Athey‘s poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Iowa Review, Poet Lore, California Quarterly, Seattle Review, and the Wallace Stevens Journal. Athey lives in South Florida on a small lake with large iguanas. His books, including the Florida spoof, Iggy in Paradise, are available at Amazon.
