The Sunday Poet: Llyn Clague

Llyn Clague

 Llyn Clague's  poems have been published widely, including in Atlanta Review, Wisconsin Review, California Quarterly, Main Street Rag, The Avalon Literary Review, Ibbetson Street, Hiram Poetry Review, and other print and online magazines. His seventh book, Hard-Edged and Childlike, was published by Main Street Rag in 2014. Visit www.llynclague.com.

Voices

The voices of the children

absorbed in a game of magic

skip and skitter onto the porch,

an abstract, free-verse music.

The sun, not yet above the green,

shines through gaps in the pines

onto bare brown earth and a lone birch,

its dead limbs crooked as bones.

On the porch there is a trinity

of screens, north, west, south, the house

behind, the outdoors a two seventy

spread out in front of me,

with an inch of faraway lake

visible below a wooded peak.

Cries of loon and grouse

drift through the air, creating

a fleeting sense of serenity.

The voices of the children

conscious only of game magic

skip and skitter like a brook

rapidly following gravity

to make its unique music,

rhythmic and fractally repetitive,

mesmerizing me like the bones

of a gambler going for broke