
Hold of the Passed
Rodney Nelson
you watched it from older country and went
and from here too as I would do in time
and you went again
__________had me with you to
watch it from High Point until was nothing
but sign in it then you came as I in
time would do
__________came back to more a sky than
any and to pass not go
___________________I am here
taking more a March wind than Seattle
or older country would know and am not
gone but have your words with me on a road
or avenue
____________________you are passed
____________not gone and
I am here with you and wind watching sky
that may have no more sign in it for me |
About the author:
Rodney Nelson's poetry got into mainstream print long ago, but he gave up poetry for fiction and did not write a poem for twenty-two years, reemerging in the 2000s. A book and copy editor, he lives in the northern Great Plains.