April is National Poetry Month

Willits Library
National Poetry Month Poem of the Day –
April 10, 2013

Stuart Gravatt

Spring Is Weeping Tonight

Not summer’s narcissist, calling

attention to herself with booms

and flashes, nor winter’s frozen

fury, piling white on white.  A shimmering

sheen of rain, instead, an incessant

shower that lulls

and saddens, like a woman somewhere

in the world, her face in her hands.

Always so much to weep for – the friend

who is dying; the lover who left;

a river that made the news,

poisoned forever by something

leaking; the unnamed

species extinct this hour.