Like a #wren cartwheeled across the roadway #poetry #God #creation #imagination #leaf #wind #dancing #Dumbo

An image of the black crow friends of Dumbo,

a memory of my childhood, a smile…

driving, enchanted, a dry oak leaf,

like a wren cartwheeled

across the lanes of the roadway

seeing its legs, its feet, its wings,

tumbling, caught in the puff of breath,

lifted against the wind right to left…

But a moment of imagination

an epiphany of wonder

The brown-dry leaf given agency,

tumbling over the macadam,

as if caught in that lifeforce

the power of the spirit

the air alive, a gift, evocative,

in the brightness of the January stillness…

 

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January 12, 2026
Like a wren cartwheeled across the roadway
 
Driving on Rutherford Road on the way to church
 
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Poetry Where You Live.
 
Poetry, God, creation, imagination, leaf, wind, dancing, Dumbo,
 
#poetry #God #creation #imagination #leaf #wind #dancing #Dumbo