Ayaz Daryl Nielsen- Three Poems

unending heat and ill winds                                                     

weather-beaten forest leaves 

and grass crumble if touched                                                  

keen, rugged boars scour

underbrush and creek beds                                                    

loose, clever magpies render                                                      

black-and-white guidance 

and the rain still won’t fall

In-between

More than they were once

They are not the same

Beginnings from yesterday’s

moments, as near as this next one  

And us, royal inspiration,  

purple clover upon the 

fallow impermanences 

of overgrazed fields

The only lasting moment 

initiates the creative 

within the next

And us, avatars of access

mascots of divine continuity

within the from and the to

between moments.

asking mister crow

how this day will be 

stretch appendages

step to the left twice

a loud and shrill caw

old crow, bemused

with all my silliness, 

quickly flaps away

ayaz daryl nielsen, husband, father, veteran, x-roustabout/roughneck (as on oil rigs) and hospice nurse, editor of bear creek haiku (24+ years/118+ issues), poetry’s homes include Lilliput Review, The Stray Branch, Dead Snakes, Shamrock, Kind of a Hurricane, Shemom, earns cherished awards and participates in worthy anthologies - ensembles include Concentric Penumbra’s of the Heart and Tumbleweeds Still Tumbling, and, in 2013, released an anthology The Poets of Bear Creek - beloved wife/poet Judith Partin-Nielsen, worthy assistant Frosty, and! bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com (translates as joie de vivre)