five starlings
charcoal on quartz snow
breaking into rainbows in the pale sun
fireweed honey
on my parched tongue
caressing it with the aftertaste of love
cigarette smoke
the bluegrey of broken hearts
swirling in a broken halo round my head
stilly notes
pearls on a silken string
singing the tears of a dead man’s dream
cold drape
of an unseen god
falling into the mouth of early evening
afternoon dies
in the ravening of his hunger
disappearing into the myth of another day
RC deWinter’s poetry is widely anthologized, notably in New York City Haiku (NY Times, 2/2017), easing the edges: a collection of everyday miracles, (Patrick Heath Public Library of Boerne, 11/2021) The Connecticut Shakespeare Festival Anthology (River Bend Bookshop Press, 12/2021), in print: 2River, Event, Gargoyle Magazine, Meat For Tea: The Valley Review, the minnesota review, Night Picnic Journal, Plainsongs, Prairie Schooner, Southword, The Frogmore Papers, The Ogham Stone, York Literary Review among many others and appears in numerous online literary journals.