SONNET FOR WILLOW  

Words weary and flaccid forms, forced in metre

Folding themselves upon themselves and time

Following foot by foot much fleeter feet,

Seeking tired rhyme to find my loves sweet child.

A grinding of knees slows my Autumn years

Where once, oiled by sweat, Springs neat ankles danced.

A mind abraded, dusts my Winter fears:Breathless and deaf where once your Summers sang.

Without leg’s dance, ears to hear, lungs to sing,

Despit…

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