The tree out front has caught a rainbow kite
and stands revealed as predatory, too,
its branches having snatched from tethered flight
a piece of June to see the cold months through.
Will March winds drive the disparate apart
or rising sap cement their spurious bond?
However proud the independent heart,
captivity can make the captive fond.
So leave me soon when...
Brian Stanley is a poet and translator living in Knowlton, Quebec. He had a poem longlisted for the 2011 Montreal International Poetry Prize and included in the resulting e-anthology. “Winter Love” is his first poem to appear in print.
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