
Gaze long
upon this grizzled tangled
weeping woods
no longer verdant
shrouding mist obscuring
any hint of distant spring.
This is my first foray into the poetic storytelling form created by British poet, ai li in 1997. As those who have followed my writing have seen, I have been gravitating toward short form poetry of some years. I am finding the simplicity of capturing a moment very gratifying and am excited to have come across another poetic form with in whose structure I can continue this process.