David A. Bart - poems
  • Intro
  • Home
  • Kingdom Come
  • Tunnel of Love
  • Exit Now
  • The Passion
  • Texas Education
  • Dumb Supper
  • Good Year
  • Toys
  • Saint Michael and the Devil
  • Invisible Knights
  • The Rain Gauge
  • Ponder
  • Remainder
  • Green Ghost
  • December 13th
  • Dedication
  • Prevailing Wind
  • Dreamland 1911
  • 10
  • On the Median
  • These Things Happen
  • White Water
  • The October People
  • Scene from a Moral Panic
  • Estrellita
  • Another Ending
  • What We're Dealing With
  • How Did the Foxes Die?
  • There was a Man
  • Bio. and credits
Picture

Prevailing Wind



Dust devils jump
a field of stubble, red breath
sucking the paper trash.

*

Schoolgirls squeal as a flirting gust
throws up the skirts they can’t keep down
while wiping at sand and tears.

*

A downburst punched the cafe's
picture window, spilling patrons
out of their chairs when the plate glass
split in a ten-foot web.

*

My mother walked toward the funeral home
clutching the shoulders my father's gray suit,
his last change of clothes caught in a gale,
a twisting specter.

*

A girl in the treetop looks over the town,
wrapped around a swaying bough
as the wind's warm tongue and soft teeth
try to tell her that everything she sees
will go away.


Slipstream, #35, 2015





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