By Bruce Willard
something cannot happen
without hands
i want to say
something cannot grow
without touch
can you hear me
somewhere is not
without hunger
in the fields
in the kitchen
on a canvas
on a page
can you hear it
make a song
a trench
in the earth
sprinkled with
seeds
or a stave
like a perch
for the human voice
through which
arpeggios of sunlight
ascend
Bruce Willard has published two collections of poems, Holding Ground (2013) and Violent Blues (2016), both published by Four Way Books. His third collection, In Light of Stars, is expected in 2021. Also by this poet: "History Lesson" and "Inverted Root"