Tag: john swain

Lemon Tree by John Swain

Lemon Tree Sweat of the beach on your neck, the sea perfumes the rain plants, the sky clears, the sky bruises purple with lightning. The fruit of a lemon tree moon shades towering over the dune sand, and then descent, a rush of wind down the branches, down the sand on wooden planks, we run …

Continue reading

2 poems by John Swain

A String of Lights for Brian We read and you left at the end of the night to sleep in the roots of the sky, to climb a string of lights through the ashes of the highest trees. We reveled toward connection on this island of cypress, we threw the blue turrets and glass domes …

Continue reading