Forgotten Ground Regained

Emblem

The evening sky is emblazonedwith authority, with blatantmastery. A breeze blows,but barely. A great blueheron is flying blithely,long wings bloomingin patient strength, blessingthe thin creek below—sublimepassage. The nightly blasphemyof electric lights, blandand senseless in the blackness,still waits, not yet blemishingthe pale air, the subtle blush,through which the heron's blissfloats, a plumed oblation.
Editor’s Note:
This poem is in an unusual and experimental form. It is best described as tail-stave meter (alliteration on the final stress of each half-length line), but with a single alliterating consonant throughout the whole poem, as in Somali alliterative verse.
Copyright © Steven Searcy, 2024 First Published in Forgotten Ground Regained, New Series, Issue 5, Winter, 2025
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