MISTRAL

Like birds on Evergreen
from different branches
with a verbal spirit
a poet's body dreams
in sequences
with open jocular lines
for our contemporaries,

Images survive first light
in a park of tall trees
when a starry night
remembers us for a moment,

like eating ripe herbal fruit
with an epitaph's language
as a humorous archetype
those whom life frees us
to laugh at our world.