Monday, April 14, 2025

Cardinal

 

Be someone's cardinal

glimpsed between leaf-shadows,

flit of brightness so startling

they have to blink to believe their eyes.

Be the reason someone looks up

from the cracked blandness of concrete

and remembers the world

is so much larger than what's locked

inside head and heart. Be the red

swoop from tree to tree, the thread

that stitches one uncertain

moment to the next.

--James Crews






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