Physics of the Breeze

David Baker

A slight wrinkle on the pond as he said

all that's left of this life is what remains

for the next three redwings motionless now

atop cattails are match tips soon enough

to strike out this evening on one black flame

David Baker is the author of Swift: New and Selected Poems. He is Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review.

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