green leaves of morning dark leaves of night

[sovay]

Sarah Arvio, "Wood":

I'll stake my life on this old stick I'll stick
and we talked into the morning and night
and laughed green leaves and sometimes a flower

I had never heard of this poet before; I am going to be thinking about this poem.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I love the last two lines of it:

and now I’ve stood for what I never should
green leaves of morning dark leaves of night


though I read it mourning