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Piece of the wind
by Chris Duffy
From Canary Spring 2022
Chris lives in New Jersey near the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers. This poem was written on a footbridge along the Saddle River which runs over six miles through several towns.
Here, in early spring
The green pushes forward
With such worthy ambition
While the golden butter cups
Like little pocks of gold
Are freckled plenty
Along the banks of the brook
Living as they see fit, which
How can anyone argue
Is other than happily,
Which is admirable,
Which is, at times,
The most difficult thing to be.
Still, right there
When your eyes open to it-
The springing out of spring,
The unfolding
As the unfolding of hands,
The happiness,
Which is like unburdened childish laughter-
Contagious and soul warming -
There you are,
Wholly, and a piece
Of the wind, which
Isn’t that everything?
© Chris Duffy