Stillness in a Low Time During the Rainiest Month of May in Half a Century
The cars approach and diminish but the road goes nowhere.
The storm stands across the street and says go.
Panic fans out.
The grass migrating without moving.
One blade bending to talk and the other
to listen … but to some other voice,
arriving from a distance. A voice with the tongue of a shadow
as if all this light traveling ninety million miles amounted
to a message smaller than a grassblade.
How small this poem must be in the field of minds!
I heard some people talking as they walked
across the wide green library yard, laughing
at a study suggesting that plants and trees
communicate. One bent his head toward the other,
whose face, angled away from the sun,
was obscured in the late afternoon shadows.
Translations from the English 
REALLY like this, Jeff.
Thanks, Emily!
Oh, the dichotomies in this piece! The Schwaner magic at work.
Thank you, RO.
“arriving from a distance. A voice with the tongue of a shadow
as if all this light traveling ninety million miles amounted
to a message smaller than a grassblade.” – enchanting imagery, throughout the whole piece, but this one struck my mind the most.
Thank you. Always great to see you here.
I love this, and I’m sharing it on Facebook.
Thanks, Chris!
You have the gift … always so well crafted and insightful.
Many thanks.
You already know it is brilliant.
I do not even know how to respond to that. Thanks!
Do you have a place that I can order your poems.. A tangible book in hand kind of thing?