Notion

 

It was one of those

Gnawing notions,

Perhaps a wayward

Neruda notion,

Maybe a Russian or

Canadian writer’s words

Freed by global warming

From the ice where

They had been

Trapped for years,

Whatever the notion

It tickled his mind

And drew tangents

Here, there, everywhere,

Painted private pictures

Of her dancing in the

Meadow of miracles,

Leaving him

Simultaneously sad

And happy, but then,

Given a nuance,

That’s what a notion

Will do.

 

Stephen Nesbitt ©

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